Well, exactly. I notice a lot of British TV will even have mixed race couples as extras, to kind of populate the background with diversity, which is nice.
One of Broadchurch's subplots involved a relationship between an underage girl and her 17 or 18 year old boyfriend. She was white, he was black and the only controversy was the fact that she was underage. I don't think his race was mentioned once, BUT he was certainly made out to be the "bad boy."
Well, Luther (starring Internet Boyfriend Idris Elba) showed him having three romances — one with his soon-to-be-ex wife, who was East Indian; then another with a white, redheaded sociopath; then finally a soulless romance with a white, blonde lady that the story constantly tells the audience isn't "real," and it's…
I feel like we often see men of color put in romantic roles when the couple is already established, but not as a meet-cute "getting to know you" scenario. One particularly bad example of this is Letters to Juliet where the white, blonde lead female ditches fiance Diego Luna for some bland white, blonde dude.
Aww, are you looking for love, Hungerwolf?
Sexual maturity is not the same thing as mental and emotional maturity. Also, if that's true then men are maturing at a faster rate as well, which should still mean that people are having sex with one-another in the same relative age brackets.
In this particular case, he's more talking about the ability for sexually active teenagers to get assistance from the country's health organization.
I see the Kotaku perverts have landed.
We get it. You want to sleep with teenagers.
What if a 15 year old wants to drink or smoke cigarettes or drop out of school to do porn? There are plenty of things children want to do, and governmental bodies step in because they're children.
Age of consent is put in place to prevent what you're talking about, the genuinely harmful side-effect is, say, that a 17 year old dating a 15 year old could be charged with sex crimes by over-protective parents.
Ah, I didn't realize it had been raised.
I'm not an expert, but I believe the current age of consent laws mean that anyone having sex with a 15 year old could be called a rapist, even if he or she was 16.
The Canadian system — wherein the "Age of Consent" is 16, but people 14 and up can still consent to sex with a partner, provided that partner is within 5 years of their own age — makes more sense.
Up until very recently, the same thing happened in the UK.
Provided you didn't perform a hate crime at the end of the meal, I'd say you're fine.
