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Although, the Georgia Supreme Court overturned the trial court on this point, the real possibility of 10 years in jail for an encounter with an of-age student lover is shocking.
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While she was in the middle of an election campaign, her family became a major point of interest to the trash media and tabloid kingdoms — her underage pregnant daughter and the of-age future father in particular.
15 Celebrities and Celeb Scandals that Got More Publicitiy than They Deserved | Manolith 2010
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A recent report produced for UN Television's programme, 21st Century, cited this fact: Every day, 6,000 girls, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa, will endure a coming of-age ritual known as female genital mutilation.
Kiyotaka Akasaka: A Stronger Voice for Half the World: "UN Women" to Work for Gender Equality 2010
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A recent report produced for UN Television's programme, 21st Century, cited this fact: Every day, 6,000 girls, many of them in sub-Saharan Africa, will endure a coming of-age ritual known as female genital mutilation.
Kiyotaka Akasaka: A Stronger Voice for Half the World: "UN Women" to Work for Gender Equality 2010
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Why risk everything to put a 14-year old in the competition when they could have replaced her with an of-age 16-year old gymnast?
For Real? Jan 2008
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Why risk everything to put a 14-year old in the competition when they could have replaced her with an of-age 16-year old gymnast?
Archive 2008-08-01 Jan 2008
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Those who engage is stripping as a business, professional or customer are all of-age consenting adults who are willingly offering and paying to see women remove their clothes.
Sound Politics: Why Is Seattle Such a Wuss About Strip Clubs? 2006
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Also in the Voice, Wondrous Oblivion "not only vacillates between innocuous fancy and real menace, sometimes awkwardly, but also maintains a rather nervy balance between a light coming - of-age drama for children and a darker, more adult story of deferred passions," writes Jim Ridley.
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As in situations where an of-age female is in a pornographic situation, but "where she's being presented as if she were 13."
Neil Gaiman On The ‘Obscenity’ Of Manga Collector Christopher Handley’s Trial 2008
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I'm not talking about of-age girls posing as cheerleaders here.
"Sending people to prison for five or 10 or 15 years for looking at pictures is killing an ant with a sledgehammer." Ann Althouse 2007
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