My boyfriend and I have been going out for 14 months. We are both ready for sex but we refuse to break the law which says it is illegal under 16.We are only 14 so this is really annoying and most of the girls i know did it at 12 or 13.
Out of general interest, who thinks the age should be lowered or raised, and to what age?
2007-01-26 23:07:45 · 10 answers · asked by Jess :D 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
What difference would it make if they changed the law? Not much. I hope you are understanding and planning on a type of birth control for yourself. This is the most important part of the equation!
2007-01-26 23:35:38 · answer #1 · answered by Gone fishin' 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-16 04:19:45 · answer #2 · answered by asar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe you are misinterpreting the law. By 16 it means you may only have sex with another person older than 16 when you are 16. If you are both 14 you are underage and there is no way they could prohibit you from having sex with each other, much less prosecute you. Unless you became pregnant or confessed they would have no way of proving you engaged in intercouse unless they had photographic proof which would be far more illegal than anything you had done.
People have been losing their virginity's in their mid teens for all of humanity's existence. In the old days women were married when they were 14 and even younger.
I lost my virginity when I was 14 and there's nothing wrong with me. If you both want to then do it, however make sure you are SAFE about it. Governments control enough of ours lives already.
2007-01-27 01:28:35 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
First question in return. Are you prepared to care for a child? No matter what precautions are taken, having sex could create a Baby. No pill, condom, rhythm method, diaphram or whatever contraseptive method is totally pregnant proof. Sex for fun is ok but one must also be prepared to be responsible for the consequences. Another reason young women shouldn't have sex at 14 is their body is not ready for sex yet. Physically it is of course possible but psycologically and physiologically a young woman is not. Age 14 is too young. Age 16 should remain the age of consent.
2007-01-26 23:30:31 · answer #4 · answered by rhstocks188 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
It should be raised, but what's the difference. You and your peers seem to think it's OK to have underaged sex, regardless of what the law says.
Children of 14 (and yes, you are still CHILDREN) have no possible concept of the consequences of sex, and even if you are exceptionally horny for your age (most kids don't start experimenting with sex until their hormones really start to go crazy at around age 17-18), usually only do it because of the peer pressure. You say you know girls of 12 who have had sex. What do you think of them? Do you want to know what grown-ups think of them? That they're ignorant little sluts, that's what!
And what if you get pregnant? What would you do, quit school and go out and get a job? Oh, wait - you're too young to get a job, and you're too uneducated to get one even if it was legal to hire 14 year olds. So, supposing you somehow managed to get a job sweeping floors somewhere. Who would take care of your kid - your mom? Or would you perhaps have an abortion at age 14? Then would you have sex again, get knocked up again, have another abortion - say - every year or so? Perhaps you would keep the baby. Not so good for future romantic prospects. Nobody wants to marry, much less go out with, a girl who carries with her the burden of somebody else's kid. Pregnancy at your age will doom you to a lifetime of poverty and missed opportunities and rob you of the rest of your childhood.
What if you got a disease? How would that go down. I mean, you're being 14, you would even be looked down on at the clap clinic. HIV - you'll be dead by the time you're 25.
My best advice to you is, keep your legs crossed, go to school and strive to advance yourself. Boyfriends can wait. And no matter how many times your boyfriend tells you he loves you, 14 year old boys don't know what love is, yet. If he really loves you, he'll wait to ask you to have sex until you're 18, and he'll wait to have it so you can experience your first time together.
2007-01-27 08:24:40 · answer #5 · answered by lesroys 6 · 1⤊ 4⤋
Although too young, if you both know your mature enough, how's the government to know? Besides them reading this post of course.
However I would tell you kids to give it a year or two or three
2007-01-26 23:12:31 · answer #6 · answered by coop 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
It's just fine as it is.
14 is too young to be having sex.
2007-01-26 23:10:45 · answer #7 · answered by sadoldgit 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
it is a law we must move in that way . it is good for ourselves it is a small age we must leave freely like a bird . not doing any sex matters bbe happy and do happy
2007-01-26 23:15:22 · answer #8 · answered by paul 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
14 is way to young for sexual relations, regardless of what you think and feel. I think the law is fine as it is.
2007-01-26 23:12:06 · answer #9 · answered by ? 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
for boys/men it should be raised to 21
for girls/women it should be raised to 30
2007-01-26 23:17:38 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋