Talk:Alice/@comment-31206528-20170206201935/@comment-26097222-20170315170644

@AGuyOnTheInternets: There are countries where 12 is legal. Pedophilia as a crime is heavily dependent on the local age of sexual consent, which is usually an arbitrary number chosen by prudish old people in an attempt to create a simple one-size-fits-all solution to a complex problem that mostly does not exist. For example, where I live, 16 is completely legal and two six year olds could be a completely legal couple, if they were so inclined. A few states east on the other hand, if two people have sex, both within one day of 18 (but not quite there yet), BOTH would have committed a crime punishable by as many as two years in prison -- if one was a minute over 18 and the other a minute short of 18, the older could spend the next TWENTY YEARS in prison -- and would be considered a pedophile by the legal system of that state.