Age Barriers in Romance

Originally Posted by Divest

One of my close friends sister dated a guy for 8 years, just recently getting out of the relationship. They began dating when he was around 21 and broke up when he turned 29. She is 19 at the moment. I'm not sure how dysfunctional their family was/is, but to allow your daughter date a 21-year-old at the age of 11 seems very irresponsible. I'm not even sure how he got away with it for 8 years.

That's messed up. Here I felt bad when I was 22 and I tried to ask out a girl that was 15(While I thought she was 17).

I seem to always like girls that are 5-6 years younger then me. Most recent girl I liked is 21 and I'm 27. But it's not that I have a particular thing for girls that young... they just seem to be the only ones I can actually stand being around that are single. Course this is all fairly irrelevant since I've never managed to get a single girl to date me. Girls my age or older always seem to be married already or they have kids which can be an intimidating factor when I've never even had a girlfriend.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Encephalon

Age of consent varies from country to country, so yes, I do believe it. In Mexico it's as low as 15 in some regions. But this cat I quoted lives in the US (if his country of choosing is correct) so why would he think it's OK to ask out a 17 year old girl when he was 22?

Because I didn't particularly care about sex. I just wanted to actually date a girl and she seemed nice at the time. Course the whole situation was made worse by the fact that she thought I was 30 and she told a blabbermouth about it.

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It's amazing how my stupidity from 5 years ago sparked such a debate by accident... Here's something that I found particularly odd. Alot of people found out that I asked that girl out and even knowing what our ages were, no one seemed to think there was anything wrong with it. I thought for sure everyone was going to think I was a creep after that.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Sassafrass

No, you're right. But it's still endorsed by many religions. Hell, out here in "WASPy" New England, I had a friend who was Hindu who got married off at the ripe age of 15. She had to drop out of high school for that marriage.

I didn't even think it was legal to drop out of high school when you're that young. Yeah, I know some states allow marriages at ridiculessly young ages, but I thought most of them forced you to stay in school till you're a certain age.

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Originally Posted by Ayos

1. Legal age + hotness = "dateable" material.
2. If you disagree with the above, you're either old, a prude, a woman, or too self-righteous to admit that you would shove your happy stick into a hot female even if she didn't have the brains or maturity to be someone you'd want to spend any more time around than is absolutely necessary.

Yes because it's totally a good idea to date someone you can hardly stand just because you want to have sex with them. Oh wait one of my friends did that and is getting divorced because his psycho wife cheated on him.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Divest

Dating someone for sex and marrying them for sex are two COMPLETELY different things.

Sorry, I forget that most people don't think like I do. I personally don't want to date anyone if right off the bat, I know I couldn't stand being around them in the long run. I can't understand the mindset of dating someone for sex and then dumping them when you can't stand them anymore. I don't like using people like that, maybe I'm too nice.

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I hate to bring this back up, but it's kind of interesting. People where questioning the fact that I asked out a girl that I thought was 17. Well I didn't know this, but apparently in Michigan(Where I live), the age of consent is 16.

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Originally Posted by LeHah

Age of Consent only applies at that age if you yourself are 17 or 18. Otherwise, you have to wait until shes 18 to sleep with her.

That may be the case in some states, but from what I've read just to see if you're right... that's not how it works here. I did a google search and everything I found basicly said the age of consent here is 16 with no restrictions. The age gap thing only applies if someone 13-15 has sex. I actually find it kind of odd and at this point it doesn't really matter to me anymore.

I only even brought it up because one of my friends told me that it was 16 here and I don't think most people who live here even realize it.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?