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Old 04-12-2007, 04:49 PM   #28 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Fluffmeister View Post
The problem with defining paedophilia by age alone is that it can end up with ludicrous cases. If two 15 year olds have sex with each other, are they paedophiles? I can see a big difference between a 15 year old girl having an 18 year old boyfriend, and a 15 year old girl having a 48 year old boyfriend - both in terms of social acceptance and in terms of the power relationship between them. I think it's the Netherlands that have a rule that if sex occurs between two people and one of them is under age (i.e. under 16), then no criminal act has taken place if the age difference between them is less than five years. That seems to make more sense to me..

I agree with Fluff. It also has me bring up the issue with the 5th graders having sex in class when a teacher never showed up. Are now those kids perminatly labeled as peds for their actions in the eyes of the US people?