Slate article regarding autism and sex offenses

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Age of consent is 16 in some US states here and some have it at 17. Montana didn't have any age of consent law until the late 2000's when my brother was still in high school. He can remember his peers being upset about it because their boyfriends were a lot older than them in their twenties and they didn't want them being branded as a pedophile just because they were under 18. In Montana it was normal for girls to date older men and it was normalized in that area. In other areas, many people wouldn't be okay with it and would be calling the guy a pedophile.


But however, just because a culture is okay with men dating 10 year olds or 12 year olds (yes this is legal in some countries) doesn't make it right. In some cultures, it's normal for parents to kill their child when they bring shame in their family and that could be because they were gay or trans or maybe they decided to take a different career path than what their parents had planned, it could be because they are an atheist or they had converted to another religion. But that still doesn't make it okay for them to kill their child. They call it an honor kill. There are lot of f****d up things out there that are normalized in other cultures. Heck when I lived in Montana, emotional abuse was pretty normal there and it was normal for parents to kick their kids out of their home for "being out of control" and that out of control behavior was maybe them talking back. Kids thought me and my brothers had strange parents and thought they weren't normal but I am sure my parents have them a different perspective on life and raising kids. You can say I lived in a redneck area. I heard lot of Redneck jokes there. Life was totally different there. It was so common there how kids were raised it was normalized and no one would bat an eye. I remember in 7th grade how no one reacted when our English teacher told us about this one girl being beaten one morning before school by her mother who was drunk and came to school with a bloody nose and said something inappropriate in class. Probably because it was "normal" so they didn't know any different.

There are also cultural norms. In Afghanistan, Ethiopia and Yemen it's acceptable to have a child bride. These customs existed all over the middle east, one of the prophet Mohammed's wives was only 9 yrs old.

Here in the west the age of consent laws are governed by lots of conditions, in Australia a girl who is still in high-school is deemed underaged, so in order to be eligible she would have to be living outside of home and not at school.

In any case it's deemed socially inappropriate for older men to be waiting outside high-school graduations. When I was in highschool one of the senior girls went on a date with a male teacher after her graduation party, she came back the next year to visit her younger sister and friends and and I overheard her bragging that she went to his house and lead him on and then when he asked her to stay the night she left and she was telling people how his face looked so disappointed, they all laughed.

When i worked it retail, the best way to determine if a women is the legal age, if she was buying liquor or an item that required you to be 18 or older. I liked some of the wine ladies that would come into the store. You had to be 21 or older to be a wine rep.

ummm I think nobody is defending pedophilia? it's a mental condition that's been accepted by psychiatrists as a disorder.

People have other compulsive disorders that are also unpalatable, the point of the discussion is in relation to the Slate article, it might be best not to read the content of this thread if it's triggering revulsion.