Jail Bait

In some populations, about 90% of the attractive women are high-school aged. Not coincidentally, these are also populations where teen pregnancies are high, women are often forced to raise the children alone, and consequently wear themselves out very early. If you're among one of these populations, and you're looking at a piece of hot ass, chances are it's off limits.

Especially hot asses, because they tend to develop sooner. Breasts take a little longer to fill out, sometimes not coming in until a woman is in her 20s or even 30s ('strue!)

But anyway, my point is that the other day I was watching the news, and they were demonizing some guy (in his 30s, I believe), who had gotten involved with a 16-year-old girl. He's a criminal, yes, and he deserves to be punished. But the amount of vilification they were heaping on him seemed a bit excessive and it made me think back to my pal Hesiod and what he'd said, about men who shouldn't get married until they were 27 or 30, but they were supposed to marry a woman somewhere in her teens. And I started thinking about many of the historical cultures I knew and about our probable evolutionary history, and it occurred to me that for most of this time, men were probably allowed or even encouraged to get involved with really young girls.

This day and age is different. Ideally, we want women to have time to reach emotional and physical maturity before they start putting their bodies through the hardships of sex and its consequences. I think the laws are good ones and should be enforced. Of course, when you start working at a place that sells tobacco and alcohol, they tell you how hard it is to tell the age of a person buying. That's why you're required to ask for ID at the counter. I think it's a little much to expect a guy to ask for ID in the bedroom. If he suspects something, he'll ask her if she's of age, and odds are she'll say yes. Still, err on the side of caution, or be prepared to pay the consequences.

But I think the vilification and the hatred and the long-term monitoring should be saved for the real sexual predators: rapists and pimps and makers of underage porn who combine sex with violence or money to turn it into an exploitive act.

Anybody who was in it for mutual pleasure and engaged in only consensual acts should be punished, because they should know better, but we shouldn't treat them like inhuman monsters.