Dear Jeff, It seems arbitrary that sex with your girlfriend becomes illegal when you reach your eighteenth birthday, but it’s true. Anyone can press charges against you for statutory rape in California, because she will still be younger than If you are convicted, however, California law will count it as a misdemeanor , and not a felony , because you are less than three years older than she is. I can’t tell you “everything” because I don’t know everything, but I researched the relevant California penal codes at AgeofConsent.

A lawyer or your local District Attorney could answer any more questions you have. Although your case makes statutory rape laws seem arbitrary, a story from one of our readers illustrates why the law might protect someone underage from being exploited.

Jun 29,  · Can a 21 Year Old Girl Get in Trouble for Dating 17 Year Old Boy My question involves criminal law for the state of: Virginia Hi, I have a friend who is 21 years old. She is in love with a 17 year old boy, and is somewhat close to his parents.

Beauty is an exponential quantity on OkCupid Every dating site has to have a way to measure how good-looking its users are. Unfortunately, despite our efforts, people still gravitate to the best-looking people. Here are messages received each week, versus beauty: The sharp increase at the right smashes down the rest of the curve, so its true nature is a bit obscured, but from the lowest percentile up, this is roughly an exponential function. That is, it obeys the same maths seismologists use to measure the energy released by earthquakes: In terms of its effect, there is little noticeable difference between, say, a 1.

But at the high end, a small difference has cataclysmic impact. Or launch a thousand ships. Here, the female curve is exponential and the male is linear. Moreover, they hold whether the hiring manager, the person doing the interviewing, is a man or a woman.