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"There is a vast gulf of moral difference between animalistic and exploitative sex between underages kids, and a young teenage girl marrying. As people have mentioned before, and on this thread, in previous generations girls often married by their mid teens, usually to a young man a bit older than them. Some of our grandparents were these ages.

Marriage and illicit sex can't be compared."

But they can often be linked. My maternal grandmother was married at age 14. Six months later, she gave birth to my mother and her twin brother. They weighed almost 8 pounds each.

You do the math. Yes, there were lots of early marriages. And many of them involved the discreet use of a shotgun.

You have consturcted a strawman to argue against. Your strawman is that Kansas prosecutes minors having underage sex and that is the purpose of the law. Since the law was passed in 1982, there must have been millions of prosecutions of consensual sex between two kids under 16. Why don't you find us one?