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To: thames_sider who wrote (1660)	3/7/2002 8:44:30 AM
From: E	Respond to of 21057

I'm weighing in on this. IMO Karen is obviously right when she says that there could be an individual circumstance in which a specific relationship that is covered by the statutory rape laws regarding sixteen year olds would end up having been emotionally beneficial for a specific girl or boy. But that that doesn't mean that the statutory rape statutes should be changed, because for the most part, we agree, the power situation between a sixteen year old and a thirty year old is simply too disparate for a relationship to be safe for the young person. The judgment of neither party can be trusted. The male has an agenda, she has insufficient life experience. And when Karen realized that the age was 16 and not 18, she withdrew her opinion that the legal age should be dropped by a year or two, so I don't understand what the problem anyone has with what she said is. Unless they deny that SOMETIMES, as a matter of an individual's psychology and not as a prescription for law, a sexual relationship between a 16 year old girl and a man of thirty might, anomalously, turn out well for her. I can postulate a time when it might be a good idea to cross at the red rather than wait for the green light. Nobody's suggesting the regulation be changed, though. The whole question of the difference one feels (I feel it, but think the law can't differentiate nonetheless) between a fifteen year old girl and fifteen year old boy is a very interesting one. Later maybe. I see you've posted a lot today. I'm going to read your posts and try not to respond even though I like responding to them. I have to get some work done.