JL Deland, Wednesday, 16 March 2011 9:01:45 AM
I don't get your issues about age of males and "Age of Consent"
I am not a lawyer but I am sure you are wrong , it's legal and in some cultures commonplace.
If your interpretation gained traction thousands of men will be languishing in goal , you will cripple our economy .

Sorry Garum Marsala but I don't get your post either!

What I'm talking about is not age of sexual consent though I do think that both for males and females there should be one. That provides some small protection from older predators moving in on young people as they think they may be in trouble with the law, and also is useful if a young person is being pressured for sex which they don't want but are having problems because of confidence issues in refusing as a way out. Consenting and hopefully educated 14 year olds having sex with each other is not for the law.

What I'm talking about is younger people being given more rope as hormones and lack of experience charge around their body. If I experienced say some inappropriate attention say just nosiness say from a young person, I'd be more forgiving than say if I experienced it from a older person - 47 does seem to be a difficult age for some people for example. I also would be less forgiving of someone who was in a position of trust in society for doing inappropriate stuff than someone who wasn't, though age again should soften the fallout if that happened in my eyes.

Ricky Nixon for instance seems to have put himself in a idiot situtation with a young woman who had already being flagged as needing careful handling. He's been bundled off to rehab, which seems to be the modern societal cleansing technique (personally I'd like to see us get back to the ashes and sackcloth days and being beaten around the village square, but I'm a traditional sort - joke people joke!) for treatment for his boofheadedness. His age makes him come out worse in a moral sense to me than the girl who also did questionable things because of her age.

By 47 though she won't have the excuses. The boredom factor should have well and truly set in by then and we probably won't be reading about her actions. So I don't see me collapsing society with my views anytime soon.

is she the new kathy lett

No she is the original Capitalist , please consult your Bible .