Spare the rod, spoil the child

[Losty]

14 is just a baby.

Yeah and it would be awesome to send all 14 years old kids who have sex to correctional facilities (they can't go to jail until 16)... Sounds legit to punish people for having sex

What are you even talking about?

[Jackalope]

14 is just a baby.

I dunno, I lost my v-card when I was barely 15, and I was hardly a baby.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

If you're old enough to visit the bakery, you're old enough to get bred.

Boru

[Jenny A]

14 is just a baby.

I dunno, I lost my v-card when I was barely 15, and I was hardly a baby.

Fifteen here too, and I don't regret it either.

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The age of consent in the U.S. varies from state to state from 16 to 18. But many have exceptions where both participants are young.

Here in Oregon the age of consent is generally 18. But it is a complete defense to statutory felony rape if the defendant is less than three years older than the victim. It's a complete defense to misdemeanor statutory rape if the victim is at least 15 and the decedent is less than three years older. So really, as long as everyone is just under two years of age apart, the age of consent is 15. And no one is doing jail time if there is less of a gap than three years in age.

[Jacob(smooth)]

I think the idea is to try to avoid this sort of thing:

Nah, changing the age of consent is never going to stop people buying the Sun.

Or was that not what you meant....

[Losty]

I might be missing something, but I feel like we were talking about adults who like BDSM, and then I said but not on children. And then Blackout said here 14 is fine.
I don't care if they have sex with each other. But not adults doing BDSM on 14 year olds.

[Polaris]

What does religion really have to do with spanking? I've know many atheists who believed in corporal punishment, more so than the religious. The religious were actually the most passive people I have met when it comes to punishing their children like their belief that even criticizing their child by saying they did something wrong would harm their psyche.

[Mr Greene]

You probably also cannot imagine being a pregnant single mother of 2 babysitting an infant and 3 other toddlers. I don't have to imagine it because I lived it. I lived on a really small road the speed limit 10 mph. I would take all the kids out and let them play sometimes.

Situations like this are what fences are made for.

Fence huh?

[John V]

Oh well fuck me, why the fuck did I not think of building a fence
No I was not prepared to grab 5 kids by the hair.
I was however prepared to see every time a car was coming. This gave me enough time to see where each kid was and make whatever decision necesarry to make sure everyone would be safe. Every kid was safe. I had the littlest one in my arm. The other three were by the house (not enough time to run to the street and get hit)
And LeliBug was right next to me. I never in a million years would have guessed that she'd step out, but I was standing right next to her and I did have my attention on her.

Suppose this question was on a child safety quiz:

You are standing by the road with a 3-year-old and see a car approaching. What should you do?

A. Take the child's hand until the car is past.

B. Keep attention on the child, knowing that you can grab the child by the hair if it moves toward the car.

[Dystopia]

I might be missing something, but I feel like we were talking about adults who like BDSM, and then I said but not on children. And then Blackout said here 14 is fine.
I don't care if they have sex with each other. But not adults doing BDSM on 14 year olds.

I was talking about two 14 year olds doing BDSM with consent..

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I think the idea is to try to avoid this sort of thing:

Nah, changing the age of consent is never going to stop people buying the Sun.

Or was that not what you meant....

Actually there is something curious, you have to be 14 where I live to have sex, however if you have sex before 14 it is not punishable since there is no such thing as a crime of 'consented sex'