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I think the older the two people are, the less age difference matters. Like if you're 30 dating someone who is 40, or 40 dating someone who is 55. Or even if you're 25 dating someone who is 30. Age differences like that don't really
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I think the older the two people are, the less age difference matters. Like if you're 30 dating someone who is 40, or 40 dating someone who is 55. Or even if you're 25 dating someone who is 30. Age differences like that don't really matter.
But the younger, the weirder. I think a lot of people really confuse age of consent laws with legal age laws. Age of consent means the age at which someone can engage in sex with another person who is up to but no older than 18. So someone who is 16 dating someone who is 21 is not legal. It's only 5 years of difference, but the maturity gap can be pretty wide. A 16-year-old isn't even finished with high school yet whereas someone in their early or mid-20's is probably in the middle of college or finishing it.
Five years of difference when you're 30, 40, 50 doesn't matter. When you're still a teenager it does.
I've never dated anyone more than a year older or younger.
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Age of consent is a states issue so every state can set it up differently, but the term "age of consent" is meant for the age where someone can legally have sex with anyone they want over the age of consent. In the majority of states this 16 years old.
Degrees of statuary rape and exemptions are based on age of the two involved parties however.
Also of note is federal law requires both parties to be 18+ which is why someone who is 16 can have sex in their own state but cannot do interstate sex related stuff on the phone or internet.