If it were legal for Adults to marry teens, would we see this more often?

and that's the other thing...yes, sixteen year olds are full of hormones and are easily led..they flirt, they try out their sexuality like fledglings trying their wings...

and having adult men around that can be mature that can treat them kindly without sexualizing them, is what helps them grow into mature women with self respect...that's one of the many reasons kids need dads around.

and the last thing the men in this survey want is a woman with self respect..they just want to satisfy themselves and to hell with everyone else..

 

throwing out my argument that WHAT would simply be impossible? You are supposed to read MY post and respond, not just respond to whatever the voices in your head are saying and then attributing them to me.. I can't find a single instance of saying that anything is 'impossible'.

using your logic though, why cant' a fourteen year old marry a forty year old? or a twelve year old marry a fifty? or ten? or eight? or six? what is YOUR cutoff and why? Remember in your precious pedophile paradises, there have been cases of children (oh I'm sorry, they are 'women' to you, right?) that have given birth before ten...

 

@ OP:

In a majority of US States, 16 is the age of consent. Did you know that?

Apart from protecting the innocent from crimes, I think government should stay out of it.

 

You can postulate a perfect canine society where dogs don't groom their backsides indelicately or chew up the furniture, but it will always result in failure because you've neglected to account for the dog's innate behavior.

In this case, men are hard-wired to find youth attractive. That's why our fashion models are teenagers and the makeup industry does such strong business.
To suggest that men have a moral obligation to not sex-up 16 year olds has merit, but to suggest that they don't (or shouldn't) find them sexually attractive is completely unrealistic. You'd have an easier time repealing the law of gravity.

 

No, you never said the word "impossible," but you implied that it would be impossible/very idealistic.

This is you not too long ago:

"how would the random guy on the street know if a girl has had her first period or not? should we mark girls on their forehead or something so lecherous old men will know which ones have had open season declared on them"​

As I've said, we should not discriminate against age when nature provides us with its own point of consent. Whether you like it or not, kids who are above puberty will have sex. The only people who are going to stop them are their parents (and of course parents have the right to use various methods to prevent their children from doing something they don't want them to do). Unless you support an extremely invasive government that watches over your children at all times, the government is really not the solution in this case. They could punish the person who committed the "crime," but should a 19-year-old be criminally charged and convicted for having sex with a 15-year-old? Before puberty, yes, child molestation is extremely traumatizing, but in the post-puberty age, the child is built to have sex. It's only natural to have sex at this point. Whether (s)he consents to have sex with someone his/her own age or not is irrelevant -- same consequences, same experience (pretty much).

 

You can look at a 16 yro and think she has a nice body. However if you look at a 16 yro and you being a man (let's say in your 30's and beyond) and have sexual fantasies about said 16 yro, then you have taken being attracted to a 16 yro to a whole other level.

I've worked closely with teen boys, and have been alone with them often. Some of them were a foot taller than me. NEVER was I attracted to them in a way I would be attracted to a MAN. The minute I started finding myself attracted to teen boys or sexually fantasizing about them, those feelings would scare the heck out of me! Remember, actions start in the mind first!

 

Bunk, poppycock, and sundry other exclamations. The idea that people have the ability to think away their instinctive behavior is delusional. Grown men, even seniors fantasize about nubile young hotties. It's in their DNA. To deny it's existence is to avoid it rather than confront it. It's like the absurd notion that people become so "enlightened" that they no longer notice race.
They can't do anything about that, but they *can* still control whether or not to act on it. Personally, I agree that most teenagers are too emotionally immature to go sexin' up, but more to the point (which I hit on earlier), they're too emotionally immature for marriage.

And as for your case, men are found attractive not for their youth, but rather for their ability to provide and protect. Most women find older men sexier.

 

I agree with your premise. There is no international age of consent and I believe there is a reason for that. It is really impossible to determine an age, where a person is capable of handling the emotions that go along with sex. I too agree marriage and teenagers do not go together because marriage is entirely more complex than sex. The age of consent in the USA I believe is 18, while it is 16 in the UK. Are UK teenagers more mature than American teenagers? I would argue that is unlikely.

 

In a majority of US State 16 is the legal age of consent and marriage.

Do you disagree with the majority of US States?

 

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Doesn't matter whether you are 15 or 80 what you perceive as Beauty is still Beauty even after you've aged.

 

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The Major issue stopping >16 year olds fram marrying older men is that they don;t want to be married to anyone at 16.

 

That has nothing to do with infantilizing anything. It has to do with the fact that since many people head off to college and other secondary education, they are not working full time jobs and have the ability to afford adequate heath insurance. It's also because you don't automatically get a job as soon as you're done with college. It's why those people tend to end up on government insurance programs. Allowing them to stay on their parents policy removes the need for the government to provide them health insurance, and makes it more affordable for a family with kids in college who aren't out there working full time jobs able to support themselves yet.

 

I am a teenager (male), and I would just like to say that I am a little sick after reading this.

What would the point be? I honestly do not believe in the whole "expression of sexuality" but even if I did it would make perfect sense to also have sexual control as a part of that.

Going through puberty there is of course desires and more but that also means restraint and care regarding your desires. While marriage restrictions/benefits or any government involvement with marriage has always annoyed me, good grief people need to learn some control on stuff like this! Yes I think there would be an increase in these types of marriages without restrictions because there are people who would be let loose. It may be slight but the increase would be there.

 

there are fantasies going both way, and some from both sides do want to marry so of course there'd be an increase if it were to be allowed.