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

[Yal]

Yeah, I was going to mention the rule of thumb too, you can date down to half your age plus seven. Although whatever that little formula says, trawling a high school at any point past your own graduation is pretty skeevy. There's a notable power imbalance across that boundary.

For myself, I'm 32 and would want someone out on their own and well established, probably 25ish at the low end. Upper limit is less important.

 

[enzilewulf]

Im only 15 so..... probably 17 since it won't be to long till I am 16

 

[dorkette1990]

If I was 16, the youngest I'd go would be 15, the oldest 18 (younger is annoying). I'm 21 now, there's not a ceiling for older for me, but I wouldn't date anyone younger than 19 (and really not even interested until 20ish... there's a lot of maturing in those years).

 

[Dags90]

At 16 I'd have dated someone that was 21. Sixteen year olds are stupid, and the extra stupid ones think they're special and not like the other stupid sixteen year olds. That'd have been me. And that's why it's illegal for a 21 year old to sleep with a 16 year old, and not the other way around.

The lowest I would've gone at 16 would have been the same age. Not much interested in younger guys, never have been.

 

[Warlord211]

As a 16 year old, 15-18.
As an 18 year old, 17-22.

 

[SonicKaos]

At 16, I would still be playing Magic cards. Two sets down perhaps, because I had some older cards as well. Onslaught block was the best. That would be my limit.

 

[rockingnic]

I'm 21 and I had a 16 year old girl try to get with me. Honestly, I only would go out with women 18 and older even if the legal age 17 or whatever.

 

[Zarobitt]

If I was 16 I would stick with my relative age and say 15-18, otherwise its just too much time between you, especially when you're in highschool and all. At my current age of 20, I generally like to follow the rule of (your age/2)+7, but currently I can't do that since it would put me below 18, something I won't do. So I would have to say I would go as low as 18 and to follow the rule go as high as 26 I guess.

 

[Avistew]

At 16 I had no interest in getting a relationship. When I started I was 19 and had sex with a guy who was 36, for a relationship though my high was more 30 and my low 25.

Now I'm 26, my low is still 25 but my high is 40.

 

[Moooo4me]

I am 16, and I would go 15-19. I would stay in high school, or just to 19, but once it gets to 20 it feels weird.

 

[Grand_Arcana]

20 maybe. I'm 19 and willing to date someone in her late 20's. Yeah, I'm open-minded.

 

[dancinginfernal]

15-17.

I'm finicky.

 

[RamirezDoEverything]

16. low 15, high 18. I'm really weird about as of right now..

 

[Dolos]

im 17, but i would only date someone from 16 - 19.

 

[orangeapples]

The younger person's number in the ten's place multiplied by 2.5 years. If the older person's age is within the number of years of the calculated person then it is okay.

If:
person 1 is aged 31
person 2 is aged 23
we have (2) x 2.5 years = 5 years
The oldest person I'd say is acceptable for a 23 years old to date would be 28, so not acceptable.

Here's my breakdown, If the younger person is in the age range of... then they are allowed to date ... years older:
0-9/0 (no dating)
10-19/2.5
20-29/5
30-39/7.5
40-49/10
50-59/12.5
60-69/15 (at around this age, I think they're out of the dating game)
70-79/17.5
80-89/20 (by this range, They should be out of the dating game)
90-99/22.5 (I'm not sure there are any 121.5 year old that are thinking of dating >.<)

at age 16, up to 19 (16.5+2.5=19)
at age 24, up to 29 (24+5=29)
The youngest I could go is 20.

This really doesn't have much to do with the maturity of the people, but the age range of the people around them. When I hear a 23 year old is dating a 15 year old I don't think, 'that music be one mature 15 year old', I think 'that must be one immature 23 year old.' in your friends case of 16 to 21: unacceptable, but I'd be okay with both dating 19 year olds; That's reasonable.

 

[Blueruler182]

Um... Depends on how well she aged. C'mon, I was sixteen, if a sexy teacher came on to me I would have tapped that in a second.

Low probably wouldn't have been lower than fourteen, and that would have been iffy.

 

[ZiggyE]

At 16 I would (and did) date someone who was at least 14. However, I probably wouldn't go higher than one year.

At my age, I'd probably go three or four years more or one or two years less. Funny that...

 

[dcdude171]

Im a 16 year old dating a 18 year old , ( Im a guy shes a girl) , soooo id say 14 youngest , and i wouldnt really have a max for oldest ...... i just had immaturaity

 

[TheLoneBeet]

I've always trusted the system my boss told me about: Half your age plus seven.

Lowest would therefore be: 16 / 2 = 8 + 7 = 15

Highest would be: 16 - 7 = 9 * 2 = 18

It's not perfect but it works better than nothing.

 

[orangeapples]

As soon as you turn 14 there is a magical golden rule (atleast in my eyes) that everyone should follow. Half your age plus 7

but what's the upper limit?

a 20 year old can date as low as 17, but as high as ??? would you just reverse the formula?

(X/2)+7=20
(x/2)=13
x=26

I guess that works. a 20 year old has got a range of 17-26

I guess a 50 year old would have a range of 32-86?