# "Sex with a minor, don't go there

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-a-minor-dont-go-there/250537>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 15, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-a-minor-dont-go-there/250537 "2004-06-15T20:39:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![Interrobang](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/interrobang/32/17463_2.png) [@Interrobang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Interrobang)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-a-minor-dont-go-there/250537/1 "2004-06-15T20:39:15Z")

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Virginia (the state, not Ms. Dare) [is funding an advertising campaign](http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-06-15-sex-minors_x.htm) to cut down on statutory rape. Specifically, they want to cut down on the number of babies born to underage women who get pregnant by older men.

This is the campaign they’re coming up with: billboards, posters and coasters adorned with:

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> Messages such as “Isn’t she a little young?” and “Sex with a minor, don’t go there” are intended to reduce statutory rape and what the department calls sexual coercion.

Good cause. Yay, statutory rape prevention, say I. But I think they could use some snappier taglines.

Off the top of my head:  
• Young enough to be your daughter. Old enough to have your daughter.  
•Are you robbing the cradle, or filling one up?  
• She’s got the bait. Virginia’s got the jail.  
• There’s no “date” in “sex predator.”

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**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2004, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sex-with-a-minor-dont-go-there/250537/2 "2004-06-15T22:56:41Z")

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Unintentional duplicate thread. Closed at request of the OP.

TVeblen