But if the ToE admits those 16 and over ... and really, why stop there? Why not admit everyone 13 and over? There are certainly 13 and 14-year olds in our society who are sexually active and could make the same argument that our 16 and 17 year olds have been making - "I'm having sex; why aren't I allowed to talk about it?" But if the ToE did that, I would have to warn my children to stay away. One is a middle school and high school math teacher, her husband is the same only he teaches English and foreign languages. My other daughter is studying now to be a lawyer.
That is absolutely not fair. It's not a question of shifting the goalposts, it is simply this: Sugaplum, Fras, Leafy, Satch, myself and probably others are adults. We can leave home (with parental consent for sixteen year olds, chiz chiz) we can buy cigarettes, we can drink in restaurants, we have to pay full fare for everybloodything and
we can have sex. Plenty of people have lost it earlier than that, yes! But we're
allowed to! And I am more than happy to get written consent and fax it to Lidless/Voronwe EVEN THOUGH I AM ALLOWED TO DO THIS NORMALLY.
I don't want to look at sleazy pr0n! (much). I want to engage in mature discussion of a sexual nature, and I am perfectly entitled to do that in this country. Even if Brit teens with written parental consent turn out to be the exception to the rule,
fine. Do you really think I want to bitch about my hormones and periods in the ML? Do you really think I want to laugh about the gag vibrators I saw in Turf? And do people feel comfortable with my thread discussing reactions to gay sex in the Symposium? No! There's a place for it. FYI, no, I'm not getting any. But the point is, I'm allowed. It is also not a question of waiting another couple of weeks for me (or for Suga, should she wish to join, though I don't wish to put words into her mouth). I will have to wait another bitter and restrained six hundred days before I am allowed in according to your standards. By then I will probably have had time to figure it all out for myself without the help I desire from time to time.
This is not about of lowering standards of this website.