Re: Anyone ever been to Thailand and had sex with underage girls/kids there? Or paid for a hooker anywhere?
VD, see my post to BB for most of my response.
I knew that the topic of changing ethics and moral standards would come into play. It is a decent argument but a faulty one.
There is no consistently logical rationale for the age of consent to be 18. There are girls that emotionally mature both faster and slower than this. This isn't a relatively black and white issue like racism is.
The rationale of age is where I question this and related things. I question the drinking age of 21, I question that 18 makes you an adult, all these things I question. How many people have given their kid some alcohol before he/she was 21? Damn near everyone. The heuristic logic in ages is inherently fucked up. Thus I don't see that big of a deal out of it, especially when for years it was acceptable by societal standards.
All legitimate thoughts and without a doubt every culture is different. However, there is a period of emotional growth that occurs after puberty...for some it's a short period for others like Teddy KGB, it never happens. I totally agree about the drinking age BTW, 21 is a joke, but I'm also for legalizing all drugs.
But back to the time-relationship to what was and what is. 60 years ago our culture by and whole was far more blue collar, far less educated. Today we are far more structured and educated. Not to say that is a good thing, bad, wrong, or right....it is what it is.
The majority of 12-year old girls in civilized countries are one year removed from elementary school. From playing tetherball and riding swings in the school playground. 60 years ago there were far more girls who weren't in school, who were helping their family struggle through life, had far more grown-up responsibilities.
I'm guessing if you did a survey of 1,000 woman and asked them if they thought they were emotionally mature enough to have consentual sex at the age of 12, 99% would vote no. In fact, in my random sample of one, the answer was "absolutely no fucking way and it's sad if anyone thinks that". Of course, that was my wife and she was a virgin when I married her at 34.
Perhaps the other two posters here with vaginas not named Teddy could chime in.
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