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.