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Thread #163124   Message #3888558
Posted By: Jeri
14-Nov-17 - 12:15 PM
Thread Name: BS: Age of consent
Subject: RE: BS: Age of consent
I don't know WHAT it is. Just saying sometimes the BS section seems like Monty Python's "Argument Clinic". Odd that you should call statements related to the same subject "non-sequitur-ial".

Last meta complaints from me. That seems to happen right before threads go tits up.

On topic.
I sometimes interviewed patients with sexually transmitted diseases, and did contact finding. It was complicated, because if the patient was under the age of consent, or the partner they named was, we were obliged to report it. It wasn't easy, as the one time I had to do that, it was an active duty guy and a 13 year old girl, who looked, and acted, like she were much older. The OSI* guy I talked to about it said it didn't matter. That it showed she had low self esteem and needed some help. I didn't think age was much of a factor, but it was, with regard to legality.

There's common sense, and then there's legality. With luck, they're the same, but laws exist because some folks don't understand, or honor, common sense. Laws are because of stupid people and assholes. My opinion.

*OSI: Office of Special Investigation. It's the Air Force's NCIS