Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site unc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!mcnc!unc!fsks From: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Dividing Line Message-ID: <160@unc.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Mar-85 11:10:21 EST Article-I.D.: unc.160 Posted: Tue Mar 5 11:10:21 1985 Date-Received: Fri, 8-Mar-85 03:51:06 EST References: <731@decwrl.UUCP> <745@amdcad.UUCP> <627@mhuxt.UUCP>Reply-To: fsks@unc.UUCP (Frank Silbermann) Organization: CS Dept., U. of N. Carolina at Chapel Hill Lines: 20 Summary: >>possibility that he actually *is* looking for a girl? >> Just where is the dividing line anyway? > >Yeah! Where is the dividing line? > >I have heard several feminists react to use of "girls" by asking if >everyone was under 13 but I think that is a little young to be a woman. > It does seem unfair that an adult male can be imprisioned for having sex with a 17 year-old, if she is indeed a woman, and not a girl. One traditional viewpoint is that a girl becomes a woman when she has sex for the first time. Frank Silbermann University of North Carolina I'LL RESPECT YOU IN THE MORNING