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People can do whatever they want. As long as they both agree to it who am I to judge?
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And when is consent really consent? It is definitely hard to break it down into age group categories, since everyone matures at different rates. The age limit is meant to limit emotional damage and to prevent older people from using differences in age to manipulate people who aren't ready for sex to have sex. It is problematic, but I guess the real test for maturity then is if you're with someone younger than you and you have sex is if that person tells on you. It is a gamble. I remember hearing on the news recently that a teacher that had sex with some boy at her middle school really got into it because she "knew it was wrong".
In any event, I'm all for protective laws for children. I can't say how young too young is, but I will say that I have yet to meet a single high schooler that I thought was mature enough to handle a serious sexual relationship. There is something developmentally (either biologically or socially) that happens around the age of 19-21 where having sex and/or a serious relationship no longer is as plagued with weird high school emotional problems due to ignorance. Of course, people can continue being in high school mode for their whole lives, it just seems to me that it becomes an active choice soon after the age of 18.