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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (205030)	10/3/2006 10:24:28 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You're right, it's hypocrisy, masquerading as concern (as hypocrisy usually does). I dare say because women find it harder to get married once they've got a college degree and a responsible job, so they resent the stock of marriageable men going after younger women and decided to put a stop to it. I don't like being "on the shelf" myself but I don't think it's possible to change human nature, even by defining women of age as "children". But I've personally witnessed many older women go apoplectic when the men in the area exhibit what they perceive as excessive appreciation for a fine, fully grown younger female. Ironically, in America, due to increases in the standard of living, lots of food, freedom to run around and play, medical care so that childhood diseases are almost eradicated, young women are reaching puberty in America at an ever younger age. I wonder if it was the men or the women who decided to make it sauce for the gander vis-a-vis the age of consent for boys? At any rate, as the mother of two boys (now aged 19 and 21), 16 year olds are not children, not boys, and even less girls.