# You haven't done anything illegal, but we're still going to put you away.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-havent-done-anything-illegal-but-were-still-going-to-put-you-away/32576>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [September 9, 2000, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-havent-done-anything-illegal-but-were-still-going-to-put-you-away/32576 "2000-09-09T04:24:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-havent-done-anything-illegal-but-were-still-going-to-put-you-away/32576/21 "2000-09-12T16:10:25Z")

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I think we’re all missing the point here. The age of consent in Ohio is **13**??!! WTF is up with that?

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**Author:** ![pldennison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/9fc29f/32.png) [@pldennison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pldennison)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-havent-done-anything-illegal-but-were-still-going-to-put-you-away/32576/22 "2000-09-12T16:46:48Z")

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**John Bredin** : I was about to make a crack to the effect of “I said _major_ papers,” then I remembered what a shitrag the PD was. 😃

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**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2000, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/you-havent-done-anything-illegal-but-were-still-going-to-put-you-away/32576/23 "2000-09-12T16:59:41Z")

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Ogre,

there’s more than one provision governing sexual conduct. There’s also this one:

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> **Section 2907.04**
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> (A) No person who is eighteen years of age or older shall engage in sexual conduct with another, who is not the spouse of the offender, when the offender knows the other person is **thirteen years of age or older but less than sixteen years of age,** or the offender is reckless in that regard.
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> (B) Whoever violates this section is guilty of corruption of a minor, a felony of the fourth degree. If the offender is less than four years older than the other person, corruption of a minor is a misdemeanor of the first degree.

The way I read it, (A) makes the age of consent 16.

(B) recognizes that sexual conduct between young people close in age is not usually considered too serious (i.e. - sexual conduct between an 18 year old and a 15 year old is just a heavy date), but a marked disparity in age (e.g. - between an 35 year old and a 15 year old) is a bad thing.

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