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Originally Posted by Niamh.

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?

If they both wanted to, it shouldn't be called rape. No one's denying she committed a crime according to the laws of the land; but there are cultures where the definition of man/woman hinges on whether someone's hit puberty or not and not just over an arbitrary age decided upon for no particular reason. Why can someone get married and leave school at 16 but not vote or drive a car or see certain films in the cinema etc etc etc etc etc............. my earlier post in this thread was just discussing the term rape, not the actual case; as with this post really. Rape should mean the violent crime. Statutory rape should be called something that doesn't have rape in the name - statutory molestation, maybe, I dunno.