Oh yeah I knew a guy who did basic then came back and played on the football team lol

It is possible for two people to exploit each other to fulfill their own private needs. You acutally can consent to be exploited, imo.

I’m not even suggesting that there be laws against it.

Power imbalances can also be just very real like a thirty year old with an eight year old having a sexual relationship.

If you want to use stuff like this to get to that point, then I think you’re actually focusing on just fraying reality be creating this creaking, creeping great area that goes from Anna Nicole to eight year Olds.

Yes, a bunch do on the delayed entry program in the United States.

There are even larsa in place that account for when these people end up sleeping with people who are adults, particularly those who are just a few years into legal adulthood.

Our larsa have mostly done a good job accounting for this.

What prompts hard legal definition like viewing 18 as official adulthood is necessity.

They are governed by special laws protecting their rights to be students or minimizing the amount of time they can work, and that also make it so their legal guardians have a say in these affairs…

As it should be, right?

I had actually written a response to this that I had believed was posted.

I am aware that she wasn’t 16 at the time. That’s fine. I was just trying to direct this towards where I believe your argument was actually heading.

Right - I pulled the 16 number out of my butt to just discuss this topic in the direction I suspect that it was going in.

I have not actually researched much what they have done here and do not propose creating laws that prevent 18-year-olds from marrying octogenarians or anyone else for that matter.

Well, it is certainly undesirable and upsetting to see people make bad decisions, right?

If she was my daughter, or he was my son, I would look at them as making a tragic decision.

Perhaps I am being overly cagey because I think I know where this could be going… and let me say: every relationship with a sexual dynamic between someone who is 28 and someone who is 16 is going to be completely imbalanced and the younger is going to be completely disadvantaged except in strange edge cases that are irrelevant in terms of the big picture… Let alone any time we are talking about someone below the age of 15.

They are both getting what they want out of this - one is receiving money, and the other is receiving that kind of gratification.

It is very transactional and controversial because we see people using the institution of marriage for something that is sleazy, and in the process, they are depriving what we would normally consider the rightful heirs of his fortune from it…

But it is tolerable in the sense that they are consenting adults. We have to respect their free will to some degree.