steveo Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > In the early 80s, I can recall a couple of East > Dulwich roughs hanging out with two 14 year-old > Jags girls. They both became long-term > relationships, one of which included marriage. > > Ten year age difference, at least. I can vouch for this. I remember it well and I think eyebrows were raised a little at the time, including my own. But I also remember back in the 70s when I was young, handsome and virile and able to shag everyone, plenty of girls being active sexually when they were 14/15 and already on the pill and going out with guys three or four years older than them and in some cases a little older. Indeed, I went out with a few of 'em myself and they certainly weren't virgins by the time they got around to me. Conversely, I had older girlfriends when I was 15. I remember one 17-year-old girl dumping me in horror when she found out my real age. We'd been going at it hammer and tongs just a day or two before and she certainly was complaining then. ;-)