OK, I've waited 2 years to make this post because I didn't want to rush in shouting off my mouth about something I didn't really "get".
In my two years I've been here, I've now counted around 10 examples of friends/gfs/colleagues who have told me about friends/gfs/sisters/brothers, etc who are involved in relationships where the guy is anywhere between 22 and 35 and the girl is 14 or 15 years of age, perhaps 16 at a push.
now in my country, there's a couple of names for that type of thing, the one you'd most use in polite company being "statutory rape".
and these are not one off fumbles in the back of a car...these are girlfriend/boyfriend things that go on for weeks and months at a time, seemingly with the blessing of all families involved.
Have I just been unlucky enough to have come across some odd statistical cluster or is this really a common thing here??
Another thing, related I suppose. One friend told me about her last year of school (which I presume was when she was 17/18) and the "tradition" of the teacher getting to sleep with one of the girls he chose. They all went bowling, had a few drinks, then the girls all flounced off to the bathrooms to make themselves look pretty...it was just the "done thing", no scandal or anything. Wondering if the selected girl's father would have been quite so understanding.
In my two years I've been here, I've now counted around 10 examples of friends/gfs/colleagues who have told me about friends/gfs/sisters/brothers, etc who are involved in relationships where the guy is anywhere between 22 and 35 and the girl is 14 or 15 years of age, perhaps 16 at a push.
now in my country, there's a couple of names for that type of thing, the one you'd most use in polite company being "statutory rape".
and these are not one off fumbles in the back of a car...these are girlfriend/boyfriend things that go on for weeks and months at a time, seemingly with the blessing of all families involved.
Have I just been unlucky enough to have come across some odd statistical cluster or is this really a common thing here??
Another thing, related I suppose. One friend told me about her last year of school (which I presume was when she was 17/18) and the "tradition" of the teacher getting to sleep with one of the girls he chose. They all went bowling, had a few drinks, then the girls all flounced off to the bathrooms to make themselves look pretty...it was just the "done thing", no scandal or anything. Wondering if the selected girl's father would have been quite so understanding.
