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Message: [QUOTE="broncosil, post: 2204674, member: 1995"] [I think it is unwise to assume that (e.g.), all 19 year old females have the same capacity to make an informed choice in any given situation, which is probably why it is wise that, in this context particularly, males consider carefully the situation, their choices and the consequences of their actions. Incidentally, maybe part of a man's responsibility in Johns's situation - aside from not being there in the first place, would be, amongst other things, to ask the girl her age. Seen any 15 year olds recently who look 19? I have.[/quote] If someone is 19 (male or female) they are old enough to vote, drive, seek employment, drink, pay tax, enter the political arena, seek education etc. It should not be up to a man to decide whether she has the capacity to make a decision about sex. Being a woman it is offensive to think that I don't have the capacity to make a decision about sex. I left home at that age to live with my boyfriend, (now my husband). I made some very huge choices, but I stand by them, because I made them. If there is anything to teach our children it is accountability. To live with the consequences of your choices. It isn't Johns' responsibility to ask her age, and even if he did, what would stop her from telling the truth? The same goes for 15 year olds who look like 19 year olds. They lie too. Would the next step be in asking for i.d.? [/QUOTE]

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