[VonDondu]

Keline, I won't argue with your assertion that "16 is a dumb teenager barely out of puberty, trying to get laid just to feel good about herself". I certainly didn't feel that way about myself when I was 16, but like I said, I won't argue with you about that point.

However, I wonder what makes you think that a 22-year-old guy is any more deserving of the right to do as he pleases than a 16-year-old? How are his reasons for having sex any different than a 16-year-old's? Why is he entitled to have sex whenever he wants? Just because he's an adult? I think you greatly overestimate the value of "maturity and experience". On the contrary, I think that people get worse as they get older. Their standards certainly have a way of becoming more lax. When they're young, they're more idealistic. But when they're older, idealism gives way to laziness, cynicism, a desire to be left alone to do as they please, and generally a lot more compromising of their own principles. Personally, I don't think that "mature adults" are any more "deserving" of their "right" to pursue pleasure than any teenager. But people take it for granted that adults have "rights", and people take it for granted that teenagers don't have the same rights, so people have a tendency to believe that's just the way things are. Not for any good reason, however.