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Originally Posted by anniek76

I think most 13 year olds are - however much they think they are grown up. Children should be children as long as possible and lowering the age opens them up to more abuse, more pressure and less innocence surely? I'm sure most parents of 13 year olds will think the same.

Yes exactly, my daughter hasn't even developed fully yet, she's physically still very much a child, what that woman is saying is disgusting.

Originally Posted by Jesus.H.Christ

If kids that age (as that's what they are) want to have sex, they will have sex. The age of consent is pretty meaningless in that regard. The most disturbing aspect of her point, seems to be to offer protection for older men to take advantage of young girls.

That would never be allowed to happen, but what a wildly misguided thing to not only think, but to state publicly.

Absolutely agree, I know what you're saying about if they want to do it they will but you're right, she's making this point in some sort of defense for old men who were still pretty old men at the time they took advantage of those girls. Not to mention the fact that one of the men she's defending has admitted to raping a 9 year old