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[ SECRET POST #2635 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2635 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Casshern (film)]

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[cosplay, Anthony Misiano]

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03. http://i.imgur.com/4s3vCwo.png
[link for nudity/etc. naked mpreg snape with boobs.]

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04. http://i.imgur.com/aQi1eUV.png
[link for nudity (OP requested it; not really sexual though. probably would've been ok, considering the one below ↓)]

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08. [posted twice]

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[Josh Radnor]

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10. [SPOILERS for Sherlock]

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11. [SPOILERS for Grimm]

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12. [SPOILERS for Twisted]

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13. [WARNING for ephebophilia]

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14. [WARNING for suicide]

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It should be 14 or 15, not 13. But it shouldn't be 18.

If that's the way you want it, we should bring down the whole age of legal adulthood. Start having people get jobs, get their own apartments, serve in the military, pay their own taxes, etc, at 14, yeah? Why should the age of sexual consent just be lowered. Let's lower it all.

Not 14, but 16 would be fine. That's when kids finish compulsory education here and can get their first job.

Then 16 should be the age of sexual consent as well, right?

What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't have different standards for different "adult" things. It should be the same across the board.

Why? Not every "adult" thing is "adult" in the same way.

Sex can result in pregnancy, STDs, and other serious consequences. If you think teenagers as young as 14 can have sex with people who are WAY older, I don't see why you think they couldn't get an apartment, have a full-time job, or join the military.

Unless of course MATURITY isn't the factor for attraction here.

What I'm trying to say is that you shouldn't have different standards for different "adult" things. It should be the same across the board.

Not sure where you're from, but in the US it absolutely doesn't work that way. Employment age is 14. Marriage age is 14-21 (varies from state to state; the younger end of the age range requires judicial approval, parental approval, and/or for the bride to be pregnant). School-leaving age is 16-18 (varies from state to state). Driving age is 16-18 (ditto). Age of consent is 16-18 (ditto). Legal age to join the military is 17 (with parental consent) or 18 (without parental consent). Legal age to buy tobacco is 18. Legal age to purchase or to star in pornography is 18. Voting age is 18. Legal drinking age is 21. Legal age to become president is 35.

There's simply no single line between childhood and adulthood in America's legal system. Which is as it should be, considering the wide range of rights and responsibilities that the above activities--and many others besides--encompass.

I notice that a lot of those age ranges are 16-18, including the age of consent in most states, but the age to get married is 14 in certain circumstances. Why is that "as it should be"? What makes a 14-year-old mature enough to marry when she had sex and got pregnant two years before the age of consent? It seems to me that would only be digging the hole deeper.

I frankly don't see the reason in differentiating any of these activities (except, of course, the last, because that is a position of authority over the society as a whole, and not just taking responsibility for your own actions). If the state thinks it's perfectly okay to allow 14-year-olds to get married, then they should allow them all the other privileges and responsibilities afforded to adults in the culture. Marriage is certainly a major life decision and isn't something that a child should enter into unless we're convinced they're mature enough to handle it. It's not any less of a huge decision than entering into any other contract.

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Because it's not the same. A 16 or 17 years old person is mature enough to decide if they want to have sex and understand understand the consequences of doing it. If they want to have sex with an adult, let them be. They aren't hurting themselves or anyone else.

"Because it's not the same."

How? How are any of the things I listed any more serious or mature than having sex? They're all adult things that can be horribly botched if you have no idea what you're doing, and have serious consequences. They're all things that really shouldn't be done while the actor is in the eye of the storm when it comes to their development as a person. They're not any different, and they shouldn't be treated any different.

I don't see why a person who is considered capable of making an important life decision that could seriously go wrong (pregnancy, STD, etc) can't be capable of any of the other things I listed.

Uh, most age of consent laws don't prohibit young people from having sex; they just prohibit them from having sex with older people. They're still very much at risk of becoming pregnant, contracting STIs, etc. from each other, regardless of the age of consent laws.

That's true, but a 25-year-old may have trouble paying their bills even though they're fully grown. What I was trying to indicate with my above posts was that this "maturity" argument that people fling around isn't worth spit unless it's actually attached to the title of FULL ADULT. The line may be arbitrary, but it holds some important cultural significance. The consequences for those byproducts of sex are quite different depending on how the law sees you and how the law sees your partner. There is no maturity test for any of the things that come to us with that arbitrary mark, but it at least makes it clear to ourselves and others what is expected of us and the relationships we'll build with other adults.

No one should have to vouch for the maturity of their sexual partner. They're either a fully autonomous person capable of doing all the things their adult partner can do or they're not.

I don't know of anyone who killed several strangers and paralyzed themselves by having sex, but I do know someone who did it by driving. Driving a car is a LOT more dangerous than having sex - not just to you but everyone who shares a road with you.

Joining the military? Are you kidding? That often involves shooting people and being shot at. Again - hell of a lot more dangerous and life-altering than sex.

Americans think everything is at the same level, judging from this thread. They have a completely retarded black-and-white vision of the world and are making me support Russia more and more with each comment they make.

No. And I'd actually be okay with raising the age from 18 to 21 (except for someone being within a few years of the teen's age). Teenagers frontal lobes are not developed until their early 20s. They are literally incapable of thinking as rationally as an adult. It is very, very, very creepy for a fully grown adult to be in a relationship with a teen.

I think sex shouldn't be legal unless you get a government authorization after a psychological evaluation that certifies that you're mature enough.

I hope you're kidding.

I'm pretty sure that was hyperbole.

Did you miss the part where it was sex with a legal adult? Nobody is talking about sex with peers.

idk how I feel about 21, but I'd rather that than it go the other way.

Does anyone know about sex with peers under the current age of consent laws? Would both parties be guilty of statutory rape, or is the law really only to protect the kids from getting taken advantage of by the adults?

It depends on whether or not the given state or country has a close-in-age exemption. Many places do, but not all.

That's unrealistic. When I was 18, I was the only virgin in school.

And? We're not talking about teenagers having sex with each other. We're talking about them having sex with adults.

And that's a perfectly legit thing.