You could lower the legal age of consent to 16, like the District of Columbia, Washington did. I always wondered if that was done so that Congressmen and Senators could get their jollies with teenagers and suffer no legal reprocussions.

Now in another situation, a 19+ y.o. boy goes to a place where teens hang out and meets a 13 y.o. girl and takes her somewhere just for sex, well thats a different story. They didnt know each other and the older person is taking advantage of the minor.

A 21+ man is legally in a bar and meets a woman in that bar, she should be of legal age too. Or at least you would think the doorman or bartender is doing their job and making sure everyone is legal. That man after meeting the woman buys her a few drinks, dances a few dances with her, has a decent conversation, then they both agree to go somewhere for sex. The whole time he is not thinking about her age because she should be of legal age to be where they met and I dont know any guy that is going to ask a woman in a bar that he might end up in bed with her age. Well after having sex they part ways and when she gets home and gets into trouble for being out so late and tells her parents where she was and what she was doing, why should that guy get into trouble and then have his life ruined for the rest of his life just because she deceived him or lied and put herself in that position?

time has proven even the threat of prison time can not curtail sex in society , why label teens as sex offenders, when possibly you are putting the parent of a child to be, in  prison, and then making Him a sex offender for Life, I find this senseless, but it seems it is  used to to cut  down the embarrasmnet of the situation for the parents, and that is the only reason it is done for !

I agree with shadows on this one, statutory rape laws were around when I was a kid, and almost never used, becuz people had more common sense, and there was usually a child involved , I find statutory rape a law of the dirty minded, and eth vindictive !  and the ones trying to salve their low grade pride !