Romeo and Juliet is for minors.
16 is flat consent where I'm at:
The age of consent in Maryland is 16 years old, as stated in MD Code, Criminal Law, § 3-308. This means that anyone 16 or older has the legal right to make their own decisions about sexual activity, regardless of their sex or sexual identity.
Maryland also has Romeo and Juliet laws, which protect consensual sex between minors or people close in age. If the age difference between the participants is three years or less, their sexual activities are not considered statutory rape. For example, if a 17-year-old has consensual sex with a 14-year-old, no law is broken.
Breh....do you see how there are enough people in this thread ALONE that feel very uncomfortable with a grown ass adult stranger texting back and forth with a teenage girl about some sexual shyt?
Imagine I owned a privately own company (not government subsidized) and I sponsored you prior to this thread.
You realize not only do I have the right to end my sponsoring of you and disassociate from you but even you, who feel there is nothing wrong with it, should be smart enough to understand why it is SMART BUSINESS to distance my business from you, right?
Let's be adults here. We don't even have to touch on your personal views about age of consent.
Do you agree that enough people in our society find it troubling?
Do you agree that whether you want to fight "the good fight" for age of consent warriors and debate those people are irrelevant to what a smart business should do in Twitch's situation?
Twitch did the right fukking thing.