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Hoosac_Love t1_j4a4pth wrote

I thought 18 was the age of consent?

So if two 15 year olds have sex there both guilty of rapeing each other?

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Curmudgy t1_j4bvgor wrote

In most states, including MA, it’s 16.

In CA, two 15yo having sex are both guilty of a misdemeanor unless they’re married to each other. I don’t know whether CA recognizes marriages of people that young even if they were legally married elsewhere. But they don’t call it rape. They call it “unlawful sexual intercourse”.

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Hoosac_Love t1_j4c1gnm wrote

With the teen pregnancy rate there must be a lot of convictions,I had always thought those underage were free to frolic with those underage.

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Curmudgy t1_j4c2i5c wrote

It’s almost never enforced. Usually it’s pressure from the parents that would cause a prosecution.

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