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Originally Posted by Phobia
I have teenage daughters and I'm just as terrified as the next guy, but the reality is that humans have been sexually active and even marrying in our early teens for all of history. I don't know why it suddenly became such a horrible crime in the United States in the past few decades, but it has.
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I think it has alot to do with the extreme cases of child molestation, in which pre-pubescent adolesents were the victims, that have forced there to be a specific set of guidelines as to what is classified as illegal. The guildlines for statutory offenses seem a little harsh but there has to have been a case to warrent such strict guidelines...needless to say many laws and their guildlines are too general and leave no room for mercy or exceptions.
IMO bad deal all around...