What do parents thinks about teenagers dating adults, and does gender matter?
A few weeks ago I saw a TV psychiatrist on a breakfast television show say that it is healthy and natural for a teenage girl to date a young adult man, but sick and sexually exploitative for a teenage boy to date a young adult woman, as they would have nothing in common except sex, and he would have nothing to offer her except his body.
When I was 20 and at university, I dated a 15 year old high school boy. We had a pretty normal relationship with normal dates (movies, walks, study dates, hanging out with each other’s friends and family etc) and had a lot to talk about with each other, as we had many shared interests and he was extremely intelligent. And yes we also had physical contact such as kissing, cuddling, making out and petting like most young couples.
Maybe I am deluded, or maybe it was a more innocent time back in the 1980s, but it didn’t SEEM sexually exploitative or as if he had nothing to offer me.
So I was wondering what parents think about issues in teen-adult dating?
Jadis: Consider yourself reported. He didn’t have satiny skin or a small penis - he was 15, not 5! And being with a 15 year old doesn’t make you a paedophile. Whatever your motives, I don’t appreciate your insane rant.
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