You're 16. How high/ low will you go?

[Devil's Due]

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[MorsePacific]

I'm nearly 19, so I'd probably go anywhere from 17-23. I really do find it weird when people date really far out of their age range.

Edit: Guess how hard I misread the topic.

This hard: [_________________________________________]

If I was sixteen, I'd go from 15-18.

 

[Twilight_guy]

I think that statutory rape... consult your local laws and possibly inform your friend to keep it under his hat (double entendre, giggity).
I would obey laws regarding ages and rape and such (curse my lawful good side) but other then that I don't really mind so long as it's true love (curse my romantic side).

 

[Thumper17]

Half your age plus 7, no exceptions.

 

[s0m3th1ng]

The age limit is a sliding scale as you get older. At 16 it would be within a year or two. At 40, anything within a decade is alright.
80, anything is fair game...which is why octogenarians have more sex than all of us.

 

[loc978]

When I was sixteen, I would have gladly fucked Meg Ryan (who was thirty-five at the time). I currently put my low cut-off at the nice'n legal eighteen, but realistically it's twenty-one a vast majority of the time (I'm currently thirty).
As for dating... I never saw the point.

 

[foolish snails]

I'm 17 and I get A LOT of crap for dating a girl only one year older than me. I also got a lot of crap for dating a girl 2 years younger than me when I was 16. It doesn't bother me, but most people seem to think that when you're around that age there is a larger difference.

 

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

At 16 I'd go 2 years either way, anymore than that you're getting iffy. Right now as a 20 year old I'd go 3 years below and just out of personal preference probably wouldn't go higher than 2-3 older.

 

[Zing]

Thought this thread would be about smoking pot...

I am disappoint

 

[XIII's Number XIV]

Believe it or not, I have a friend that is in a similar situation. She's 16 and dating a 19-year-old college student.

As for me, I'm 17 now, and I'd rather not talk about my relationship last year. But I did have a rule: same age to 2 years older, never anyone under.

 

[C95J]

I am 16 now. I would probably go as high as 18, but I wouldn't go lower than 15. I'd much prefer to date people close to my own age.

 

[Latinidiot]

In my opinion, the only reason age matters is legal repercussions. Given that I'm currently 20, the lowest would be 18 and the highest would be like...not dead? Of course, this is assuming a romantic relationship as opposed to a sexual relationship which I would be opposed to getting involved in.

This person speaks what I can only assume to be the one stance of the reasonable person.

Well, life styles change throughout life as people want and need different things. It may be very reasonable to hold off a relationship with someone because the gaps in life are simply too big.

 

[Narron66]

To answer this question civilly, it doesn't matter what everyone else's age preference is it only matters what your own preferences are

 

[Angerwing]

This actually came up recently for me. I was in McDonalds late one night with a mate, drunk off my face and feasting on McNuggets. This girl came up, and started chatting me up. She kept on trying to hug me and was hitting on me pretty fierce. I had the presence of mind to ask her how old she was. She didn't answer. Being a crafty ************, I asked what school she went to.

"[school name]" First warning sign. But that school teaches up to year 12, which is 17-18 years of age.

I say: "I don't believe you. Prove it."

She pulls out her school ID. I grab it, check the back.

Her birth age? XX/XX/1996. I'm 19.

Oh shit. She's 15.

I tell her that she is way too young, I'm not a pedophile, and I left.

Drunken craftiness at its finest.

 

[Lawnmooer]

Well, I am currently 16 so this should be easy for me to answer...

I'd have to say something like 15-24 would be my limits for a number of reasons:

I don't want to go much younger than myself at the moment due to people changing in personality quite drastically over those years.

I get mistaken for a 22 year old sometimes which would mean that I could go with older people without them feeling as awkward.

In the end it comes down to whether we like each other or not rather than ages... Age is just something to remember once per year for birthdays.

 

[Troublesome Lagomorph]

2+, 4-
However, since I'd be 16... 2+, 0-
Edit:

I wouldn't have dated when I was 16. I regarded it as unimportant at the time; now, with the benefit of hindsight, I consider it to be a perversion for an adult of any age to date a teenager, and extremely distasteful for teenagers to be dating at all.

This, so much. Then again, I'm 17 and think romance as a whole is stupid and a waste of time, which I've believed since I was 15.

 

[DigitalAtlas]

At 16? God, nothing older than 17 nor younger than 15 and 6 month. As you get older though, the range increases.

 

[onewheeled]

Well, I'm 16 (March, 1995), and I'm dating a girl that's turning 18 in September, I'd say that's about my limit for a girl being older than me.

I'd say a two year difference is okay at younger ages. It makes less of a difference the older you get, as maturity levels kind of even out between ages, but when you're younger, it can change everything.