[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Nedusa

Look.........you can dress it up any way you want and label it as Rape statutory or otherwise, but the simple fact remains she had consensual sex with another person.

Just because the "law" says it is rape does not make it rape, marriage to minors is legal in some countries and whose to say our law is better than their law.

So taking a strictly moral position if the 15 yr old consented to have sex with this older woman then that is their business, and anyone sitting in judgement spouting the "law" saying it is rape is clearly deluded...

I'm not dressing it up in any way at all, what I'm saying is what is a fact, you're the one dressing it up. I'm not labelling it as anything - the law is, because guess what? They're the ones that make the labels in order to decide what is and what isn't against the law. You may not agree that there should be a term called Statutory rape and that's your prerogative but you disagreeing with it doesn't make it disappear from existence.

A question for you, what if 50 year old wanted to have sex with a 12 year old and the 12 year old was up for it, would that be alright?