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Maybe about 10,000 years ago or more. 40?!!! Roland99 Dec 2017 #1
In the 1800's Yupster Dec 2017 #13
Before the 1920's Revanchist Dec 2017 #20
Still happens here Kilgore Dec 2017 #30
Not according to mall security guards lame54 Dec 2017 #2
The day folks here actually defend it BootinUp Dec 2017 #3
shame on these craven lunatics spanone Dec 2017 #4
40 years ago I was a college sophomore lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #5
Spring breaks latest menace? Horny old men TomCADem Dec 2017 #6
it was creepy 40 years ago too... lapfog_1 Dec 2017 #10
I was 34 years old in 1979 Dale Neiburg Dec 2017 #22
Calling those you seduced liars years later for political gain IS a major character flaw Freethinker65 Dec 2017 #7
OMG. Yes it was unusual! They called them perverts and for good reason! nt ginnyinWI Dec 2017 #8
Ted Bundy was a young 30-year-old Republican 40 years ago too Generic Other Dec 2017 #9
And your father probably would have been locked up Mariana Dec 2017 #15
I'm not sure it would have stopped him Generic Other Dec 2017 #16
The fact remains that nothing much was done. Mariana Dec 2017 #18
No due process for the *victims*, that's for sure. KitSileya Dec 2017 #24
What stands out is that the girls banded together Generic Other Dec 2017 #32
I wasn't near Gadsden, so I never heard about him. Mariana Dec 2017 #35
Didn't Jerry Lee Lewis kill his career by marrying a young'un? shraby Dec 2017 #11
It was a big scandal but it didn't permanently ruin his career TexasBushwhacker Dec 2017 #21
There is absolutely nothing. Snackshack Dec 2017 #12
If it was so common, Grammy23 Dec 2017 #14
Maybe forty years ago customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #17
My great great grandmother was 14 when she married in 1874 Mariana Dec 2017 #19
Actually, just this morning customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #36
Gadsden is not rural now and it wasn't then. Mariana Dec 2017 #37
Gadsden doesn't have to be rural for this mentality customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #41
The fact remains that he tried to avoid the girls' parents most of the time. Mariana Dec 2017 #48
Agreed customerserviceguy Dec 2017 #50
This message was self-deleted by its author Mariana Dec 2017 #45
It is not rare today - a good percentage of early teen pregnancies involve men in 20s and 30s FarCenter Dec 2017 #23
They're trying to pretend what Moore did was socially acceptable. Mariana Dec 2017 #38
The only problem is, the seducing was probably done by other 14 year olds. Oneironaut Dec 2017 #25
WTAF shenmue Dec 2017 #26
The fuck it wasn't unusual. I was around back then. Yavin4 Dec 2017 #27
Sick. Sick that Pedo Roy did it, sick that they are thing to normalize it The Genealogist Dec 2017 #28
Recent personal experience which shocked me Kilgore Dec 2017 #29
Were their spouses in their 30's when they got married? Mariana Dec 2017 #39
No clue, so i asked her Kilgore Dec 2017 #49
Oh Yes It Was ProfessorGAC Dec 2017 #31
nope, no, just no. I was 14 years old in 1979 and it never was OK. all american girl Dec 2017 #33
That's news to Roman Polanski Johonny Dec 2017 #34
2004: Last Civil War widow dies at 97 mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2017 #40
Some years ago, I slogged my way thru The Oldest... 3catwoman3 Dec 2017 #55
Vigorously defending Al Franken for putting his arm around someone during a photo op... Iggo Dec 2017 #42
I was 15 in 1977. Any mid 30's guy going after after classmates Thor_MN Dec 2017 #43
I'm about the same age as you. Iggo Dec 2017 #46
Huguette Clark mahatmakanejeeves Dec 2017 #44
What? That's insane. alarimer Dec 2017 #47
Our media needs to ask Rocky888 Dec 2017 #51
I was 14 in Alabama 60 years ago, and if a man 32 dated a girl 14, he was seen Sophia4 Dec 2017 #52
Is that why Roman Polanski is still a fugitive? McCamy Taylor Dec 2017 #53
But wasn't it illegal back then? Beaverhausen Dec 2017 #54
The term "jailbait" dates back to the early 1930s. Dave Starsky Dec 2017 #56
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