To: Ilaine who wrote (205040 ) 10/3/2006 3:15:32 PM From: Maurice Winn Respond to of 281500 Given the data, I think I might have a safe bet on discovering hypocrisy if I asked Geode the age of her consent, or rape. I dare say the 70% figure for New Zealand is not a lot different from the figure for the USA and for most age groups too. Old timers didn't get raped, they got married. Sometimes urgently. At 16, 17, swarms by 18. Female children are obviously evil creatures since they seduce innocent blokes going about their business in the shed, on the footy field, or down at the pub, knowing that they are going to be guilty of rape, with the horrible legal consequences. Blokes are notoriously easy to entice into such evil-doing. Can acoholics have "just one kiss" on the lip of the whisky glass? Do New Years resolution ex-smokers turn up their nose at a proffered cigarette after a few drinks and a nice time? At 2am, 1 Jan ["It's not really the new year yet. Well, not in later time-zones"] Can the obese who haven't eaten for hours not drool like Pavlov's Dog and lunge at the buffet table lying there, just for them? If somebody holds out an ice cream to them, free, on a hot afternoon at the beach, after not eating since breakfast, do they just say "No thanks, I'm busy sitting here, tired and hungry, waiting for some carrots and lettuce to come along". Would you offer the alcoholic a whisky, the ex-smoker a fag, the fattie an ice-cream? No. Your ethical standards would tell you to NOT tempt them into their own demise. Female children are not so considerate. 70% of them have seduced the poor bloke into being a criminal rapist for the rest of his life [with the fear of being caught looming over him forever - I doubt that there is a statute of limitations on such a hideous crime]. I wonder why more blokes aren't blackmailed? Seems an excellent opportunity. Maybe that's why so many used to agree to early marriages. "Pregnant eh?" says infant female's father who reaches for shotgun while wife hurriedly starts wedding arrangements. Bloke agrees to wedding and care of wife and child. As the father of 1 son and 3 daughters 30, 27, 25, 22 and one grandson and having seen a lot of other people's lives in 57 years, I agree with you. <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. > So come on Geode, what age did you first do the deed? Did the bloke get prison or marriage or blackmail or live in fear? And, since I'm asking questions one shouldn't ask, how old are you now [females like that question]. BTW, I bet you are just like your mother. Teenage girls hate that one, also said as "Crikey, you two look lovely. Are you the mother?" Asked of the mother. The mother loves the question. The daughter's face goes kind of paralytic. The daughter doesn't know whether to murder her mother, me, or be flattered, though if she's young enough, she's flattered by being mistaken as old enough to get a guy convicted of rape. Mqurice