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

Only if you can stomach watching this 2minute video tell me what you think.
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I can't believe you made me stomach the View!

I don't believe marriage should be government-endorsed, so whatever they want to call it and whatever ceremony they want to perform is up to them. I think what it really comes down to is the age of sexual consent. I think it should be puberty since this is the age when we are built to have sex... and if a 14-year-old can consent to having sex with another 14-year-old, why can't (s)he consent to having sex with a 25-year-old? Is it somehow more harmful? It may be awful gross, but being gross is not a legitimate reason to outlaw something (given its extreme subjectivism).

There would probably be a slight increase in the number of adults marrying teens, but I don't think it would go up so dramatically that you would even notice a difference.

And yes, virtually all men and women have had sexual fantasies about hot teens since they themselves were teens at one point.

 

I can't see the video but a couple of questions.

Is teen, a nineteen-year old or a 13-year old?
Is adult an 18-year old or an 83-year old?

 

The guy in the video is 51 (actor from lost) and his wife is 16.

Let's use their ages as an example as not to go in 50 different directions.

 

Okay, so we're talking about old farts and children.

I do understand the desire. For some, it's impossible for them to impress an adult. They have to target children.

 

the age at which former adult experiences were considered normal and usual has been ratcheted down immensely over the past several decades. I see no reason why a 15 or 16 year old should not be allowed to marry. If they can legally decide to have an abortion without any parental consent or even parental knowledge, there is little reason why they should not be allowed to marry.

 

are you aware that puberty keeps getting younger and younger because (in part) of hormones in milk and better nutrition? some girls are getting periods at 8 or 9 one girl got PREGNANT at five....would you be ok with that too? and 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?

 

it always disgusts me how the Progressives want to infantilize everyone when it comes to government handouts but in sexual matters, they want to declare any age 'free to express their sexuality'..


for example, in Obamacare, they want people up to age 26 or so to be declared still 'children' under their parents insurance...well if 26 year olds aren't capable of getting their own insurance, how can we expect them to be able to drive or have sex? it isn't the least bit logical. I guess the Progressives would have us believe that a 26 year old can buy AUTO insurance but is tooooo helpless to find any health insurance. Their minds work in weird mysterious ways, these Progressives...

regardless, I wouldn't trust one to babysit..

 

excellent post. Perfect logic based on facts.

 

Yes, the milk hormones really screw up the whole system, resulting in earlier puberty. The bottom line is that we are built to have sex at puberty, so a few people who have are physically capable of having sex younger than others is not really relevant to anything. And if you are to say that puberty as an age of consent cannot be done in practice... you do know there are plenty of countries that use puberty as a determination of consent, yes?I could also apply your same logic to age: how is a random guy down the street supposed to know if a girl is (age of consent) or not? Should we mark girls on their forehead or something so lecherous old men will know which ones are at the legal age?

 

I`m going to be sick!

 

I know. I'm also hoping that people had different ages in mind when answering the poll. Majority says most men have fantasized about being with a teen girl. Kinda disturbing!

 

Melissa Milano
Christina Applegate
Sarah Michelle Gellar
Phoebe Cates, I know she's not a teen anymore but she's still hot.
Miley Cyrus

http://www.google.com/search?q=slee...eIcqEtge338SSDQ&ved=0CC8QsAQ&biw=1136&bih=818
Need I say more.

 

You wouldn't see more adults marrying teens unless the teenager actually wanted to marry the adult.

It would depend on how old the teen was. What if the teen was 13 and the man was 50?
I think you should be allowed to marry whoever you like once you reach 18, which is adulthood. But marrying a much older man at 16? What the hell was she thinking?

 

there are outside signals that denote the age of a person, it isn't dependent on some unseeable hormonal change...for example, what grade is the person in school, is she driving yet...is she still playing with dolls..

and please tell me which country sets puberty as the age of consent?

even if you have one, I would point out that there are countries where they stone women in the street for percieved sexual 'looseness' so I am not overly concerned with wanting to be like all other countries (and "well, everyone ELSE is doing it" didn't work with my kids, it doesn't work for anyone else either...the classic answer to that is "If everyone jumped off a cliff would you do it too?")

 

I couldn`t find any statement in the "poll" that wasn`t disgusting. This ia a beat up. Not all men are the sickos as this thread is attempitng to portray us.

 

A 16yo is a child, all those hormones tripping over each other, growth spurts etc., should be an absolutely sexless item to a normal man.

 

It is legal.

 

Why is it disturbing? Men are instinctively attracted to adult female features. Girls passing through puberty develop those female features. Men will be instinctively attracted to teenage girls. Quite frankly, I think denial of this fundamental fact is more dangerous.

The instinctive attraction isn't in itself a problem. I can have passing feelings about all sorts of women but it doesn't mean I'm going to do anything about it. I can be attracted to an adult woman who obviously isn't interested in me but that doesn't mean I'm going to rape her.

On relationships with large age differences, I don't think it is automatically a problem. A relationship works if two people have enough in common to form a strong bond. Obviously being of different generations makes that less likely but not impossible. After all, men and women are fundamentally different to start with but people make it work anyway. Some relationships with large age gaps will have major problems (or are indicative of existing problems) but that doesn't mean they can't work and is not a good reason to automatically dismiss any out of hand.

 

Why can't a 16-year-old marry a 50-year-old but an 18-year-old can marry a 80-year-old?

So someone playing with dolls or doing mathematics is more relevant to their capability to sex than their natural reproductive capability? Interesting.

The only ones I know of are in some parts of Mexico, but there must be other places as well.

You missed my argument by a mile. Saying "that country does it, so we should do it too" is certainly not a valid argument for anything (there's different laws in each country!). All I'm saying is that it has been done and can be done, throwing out your argument that it would simply be impossible.

 

*Marrying* a teenage girl? You kiddin' me?? Have you ever had to sit in the same room with one? They're insufferable!

 

Thanks to Himmjered for the rep. I'm just sayin'...

It is already legal in my State to marry a 16 year old. Despite the inherent sex appeal (let's not kid ourselves), such marriages are extremely rare. Mainly because teenage girls are too obnoxious to spend more than 15 minutes around without getting a headache.
Who wants to listen to this all day?
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So... no. I don't think we need laws prohibiting something that most people are smart enough to avoid.

 

Lol! Beautiful ... a winner of a post - thanks! .... but, you do know if you get to logical for to long, you're going to have the prog libs foaming at the mouth .... this thing called 'common sense' doesn't set to well w/them....

 

A 16 year old can marry in the UK. 16 is the age of consent in the UK and many other civilised countries. A 16 year old may not be mature, but I have worked with many students who are 18, 19 , and 20 and some of them are less mature than a 16 or 17 year old. It is very difficult to select an age in the teenage years and call that age a "child". If we are talking about a 10 year old or 12 year old, then surely we could all agree they are a child. I would agree a 14 year old is a child as well, but I believe that is the age of consent in Spain. I do not consider the Spanish to be barbarians either.

 

thank you!

too often people dont' realize how this kind of thing is a shot at good, decent men that care about their role in society as MEN.