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statuatory rape laws
Here's my proposal for statuatory rape laws (and these are regardless of the gender/orientation of the participants)
1. At least one of the partners must be under the age of 18 and the other must be at least 18 years old.
2. The older partner must be at least four years older.
Thus, you could prosecute a 40-something teacher for having consensual sex with his/her 17-year-old student, but not an 18-year-old senior for having consensual sex with his/her 15-year-old sophomore sweetheart.