n. the legal concept that someone
18 or older having sex with someone younger than
18 is committing a felony. Members of NAMBLA advocate committing this with young boys, apparently. Even less than 100 years ago, it was common for men to marry teen girls as young as
13. I guess all those men committed statutory rape.
John is 18 and
Jane is 17, and John was arrested and put in jail and now is a convicted felon even though
Jane married him on her 18th birthday. What a
crazy country we live in.