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help need advice
K i have a quick ? for my friend, we live in the state of ct, and shes 17 years old, she wants to date a 20 year old guy, but the guy said its ilegal. Is this true? cause i told her from what I read myself , it is not ilegal as of now in the state of ct a 16 year old , and older is legal in the state of ct to date / have sexual contact with a man over the age of 18, but its 2006 all the laws i see are 2005 and older is this still true? thanks for any input my friend would really appreciate it, because i dont kno if the rules have changed i dont kno where to look
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That guy really needs to check his facts! It is perfectly legal. Even if she is not over the age of consent she can still go out with a twenty-year-old. At seventeen, it's pretty much assumed that you are able to make adult decisions. The age of consent is there to prevent statutory rape, but it's basically enforced for things like a twelve-year-old consenting to have sex with someone older than they are. Just because she/he consents, she/he was not considered old enough to make such decisions. So it is legally rape. But if a seventeen-year-old is in a relationship with a twenty-year-old, and they want to consumate their love, the law is not enforced. I mean, how could it be? It's their business anyway. Besides that, if there is no sex involved then there is no statutory rape. It's perfectly acceptable to date and not have sex.
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I have for you a chart. It lists the ages of consent by state.
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