• From: Portland, Oregon
  • Registered: 04-15-2010
  • Posts: 10

Topic: Parents who try to control your relationships

The other day I was talking to my mom and she was worried that I had snuck out of my room last night to meet my boyfriend. She said she was really worried because she didn't want me to (GASP) become sexually active, and since I'd recently told her of my boyfriend she thought maybe I'd snuck out to go see him. It just made me laugh (not to her face of course) because I've had sex several times with several different people and my mom trying to control this is just funny. how can parents and the government think they have control over us with these laws? The only thing that these laws do is possibly scare older people so that they don't ave sex with us. Clearly we still ahve sex with each other. Thses laws are completely dumb and useless

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  • Registered: 05-03-2009
  • Posts: 48
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Re: Parents who try to control your relationships

There's sort of a laughable perception in that parents think of their own teenagers (and usually, their friends) as chaste, with some ambiguous larger group as promiscuous, at least from what I can see.

Apologies that your post wasn't replied to in a timely manner; we really need to monitor this forum more closely.

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  • Registered: 09-19-2010
  • Posts: 13

Re: Parents who try to control your relationships

I don't entirely agree, while it's certainly the older parties who tend to suffer the brunt of punishment, nowadays many minors are also being punished as a result of these things. You have cases like consenting underage teen partners getting charged with statutorily raping one another simultaneously, or you have the 'sexting' phenom where a girl gets charged with creation/distribution of child pornography for taking an erotic photograph of herself and sending it over her cell phone to her same-aged boyfriend, who is in turn, charged with possession.

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  • From: Portland, Oregon
  • Registered: 04-15-2010
  • Posts: 10

Re: Parents who try to control your relationships

That is true, but we do it anyhow, don't we?...Well most of us at least.

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