Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-miles!chabot From: chabot@miles.DEC (L. S. Chabot) Newsgroups: net.singles Subject: Re: Dividing Line Message-ID: <996@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 7-Mar-85 09:48:32 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.996 Posted: Thu Mar 7 09:48:32 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 9-Mar-85 11:28:06 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 21 Look, buckos, in the original article (with the "KEYWD: girls"), the kid said he was in grad school. How old were most of you when you graduated (or will be when you plan to graduate) from college? (a usual prerequisite for grad school) 21? 22? 27? Probably not 17. Okay, say he's 21 and wants to date 17 year olds. Not many of those in college. Someone who is 17 is not an adult in most views of the law; therefore having sex with a 17-year-old is having sex with a minor, and could fall, in some states, under contributing to delinquency (depending upon the state's laws on extra-marital sex, etc) of a minor. No female becomes a woman through the intervention of a man during sexual activity; just like no male is a boy until he's had sex with a woman. However, it can and does happen, that a 13-year-old girl suddenly has to take on responsibilities of adulthood and parenthood; the most frequent cause of this today in the US is pregnancy. L S Chabot UUCP: ...decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-amber!chabot ARPA: ...chabot%amber.DEC@decwrl.ARPA USFail: DEC, LMO4/H4, 150 Locke Drive, Marlborough, MA 01752