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Whether anyone would prosecuted with a small age difference is something else. There doesn't even need to be an age difference--two seventeen year-olds would both be guilty of Class A misdemeanor, since seventeen is not considered a "child" for purposes of prosecution.
Curiously, as long as there was no one under 18 watching, the only place to keep it a Class A misdemeanor would be in public...though that surely has its own problems in some other section of the statutes. To go to a secluded place would make it a felony as "Child enticement".
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948.09 Sexual intercourse with a child age 16 or older.
Whoever has sexual intercourse with a child who is not the defendant’s spouse and who has attained the age of 16 years is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
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948.07 Child enticement. Whoever, with intent to commit any of the following acts, causes or attempts to cause any child who has not attained the age of 18 years to go into any vehicle, building, room or secluded place is guilty of a Class D felony:
(1) Having sexual contact or sexual intercourse with the child in violation of s. 948.02 or 948.095. (2) Causing the child to engage in prostitution. (3) Exposing a sex organ to the child or causing the child to expose a sex organ in violation of s. 948.10. (4) Recording the child engaging in sexually explicit conduct. (5) Causing bodily or mental harm to the child. (6) Giving or selling to the child a controlled substance or controlled substance analog in violation of ch. 961.
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