[MtBaldy]

If at 15 she had molested me I would have considered it fulfilling my wildest fantasy.

I have also taught 8th grade girls (14 yo). I can say they are a different breed than the girls I was in the 8th grade with. Probably half of them are sexually active and all of them know the effect they have on men. A large percentage of them were so well developed that with fake ID no one would doubt they were 18. I don't condone teachers that succumb but in many cases the girl is the aggressor. It's still statutory rape no matter how hot she is or how much she wants it.

[UnbelievingScumOnTheOtherSide]

If at 15 she had molested me I would have considered it fulfilling my wildest fantasy.

I have also taught 8th grade girls (14 yo). I can say they are a different breed than the girls I was in the 8th grade with. Probably half of them are sexually active and all of them know the effect they have on men. A large percentage of them were so well developed that with fake ID no one would doubt they were 18. I don't condone teachers that succumb but in many cases the girl is the aggressor. It's still statutory rape no matter how hot she is or how much she wants it.

Given that, why? Who is being protected from what? The only theory you can fall back on is that it protects the father of the girl, as his property, and even then you'd have to hold every 14-year-old boy she opens her legs for to the same criminal penalty. (8th grade is about 13 to 14 years old)

If she (a 14-year-old) can legally "consent" to a 14-year-old boy, then you really don't have a capacity argument to make, do you? The best girls are still available to every 14-year-old precocious predator. The "good" boys still get leftovers and sloppy seconds. The argument could be made that if adult women were available to those dilinquents, it might protect some of their innocent classmates.