x>16 when y<26
x=y+10 when y> or = 26
Guess that works....but looking at 16 and 26 I think Im a bit more comfortable with...
1/2 your age +7 (a commonly referenced social equation)
(x-7)*2=y
Love the way you express them as formals. and agree totally agree with your sentiments.
I know what you mean. While in an upper level college Calculus class, I started hitting on a girl who I thought was like 19 or 20, but found out she was only 15 and just super smart for her age. It made me feel like a total prev. and couldn't even look at her for the rest of the semester.
Im glad someone enjoyed my math
You were in a situation where all the contextual clues said she was an eligible mate. If her appearance says 19-20 and intellectually she was obviously advanced beyond her years.....
youve really no reason to feel like a perv...Just order her a fake ID for plausible deniability j/k
My listing of US age of consent figures, with 31 states approving of 16 year olds, shows that the powers that be even acknowledge a serious difference between Pedophelia (0-10), Hebephelia (11-14), and Ephebophelia (15-19).
my theory is that most people here are in their late teens to mid 20s , and people in this age range tend to be okay with going significantly younger than people who are older, who largely seem to be rabidly fixated on 18+
Rabidly fixated....not so sure...culturally indoctrinated perhaps...experienced enough to realize the risks....established enough in our lives to have something real to lose. And additionally, at some point, some of us have daughters of our own....the first time I dated a woman closer in age to my kid then myself it gave me a moment of pause.
As for your demographic assumptions I think youd be surprised at how many older people are here. While I am aware there are quite a few youngsters, as their presence is more obvious due to their lack of discretion, younger enthusiasts of altered states are quite often well networked in the actual world, able to find dealers, and less able to discretely accept packages. and quite often financially less able to indulge in larger purchases when the "quick deal" arrives.
There are quite a few older members that read an article somewhere....and came here because often times.... As the years pass our lives progress, the risk of losing it all becomes more significant.........we not only loose those connections that in our youth provided us with the tools of our intoxications but also the desire to have connections to them anymore. SR makes it far easier to find what we desire discreetly.
Almost always when I hear people going batshit about the thought of sex with anyone under 18, they are in their 40s+ (or females), where as I find it quite common for (males) in their teens and twenties to be fairly open about not giving much of a shit (or even endorsing the idea
). I haven't held a scientific study or anything though. Also there are probably quite a few older folk here, but there was a poll that showed late teens to mid twenties as the most common age range, and I think this would hold true even if everyone here voted honestly on the poll. Internet drug scene is dominated by this age range, and it makes sense, its the generation that grew up on the internet and its the age range where people use drugs the most.
I do agree that it is cultural indoctrination though, I think this is also reflected in age groups as it seems to me younger people are less influenced by traditional sorts of indoctrination. This can be seen by looking at statistics for drug legalization, the older the group the more they are in favor of criminalization (% wise), and the younger the group the more people are in favor of decriminalization (% wise). There is probably more to it than that though, but it is an observation I have made. Perhaps the fact that younger people are the internet generation comes into play in a serious way, older folk didn't have access to so much information and got most of their information from localized sources and also through traditional media and government channels. It might not be strange to someone to think that 18+ is absolute moral truth if that is what the "authority" figures in their area say, what they see on television and what their friends say they also believe. But it quickly reduces to absurdity when you regularly talk with people from countries with age of consent ranging from 14 to 21, and see that people in some places are being labeled as vicious sexual predators for doing things that are perfectly legal in the country of the normal person you talk to regularly, who lives a thousand miles away from you (or even just a stones throw away).
Also when you communicate with your local friends you will be much less likely to be bluntly honest about your beliefs, versus talking on the internet, which most perceive as anonymous even without taking any measures. Interacting with 'the masses' online probably gives a better view of what the masses truly believe, versus interacting with them in meat space. Of course this may not be the case anymore now that government is flooding pseudonyms into every nook and cranny of the internet (using fairly sophisticated software at that!) to distort the perception of public opinion (they are starting to become more modernized with their propaganda, but it did take them a while to catch up, as always)