Reply #71: i think that's a very reasonable standard, as gross as that might be in some cases [View All]

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If a society respected a, say, 16-year-old's intelligence enough to give her the right to vote, etc, I suppose that by that same society's cultural norms, sex with a 16-year-old by someone of any age wouldn't be child rape, it would be a relationship with a legal adult. Icky to me here in the U.S., but maybe not in the context of her having other rights.

I really like your idea. It respects cultural differences as well as women's rights, while establishing that certain things are wrong, wrong, wrong.

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