Non-salatious Sunday blogging

Not to sound too thick or anything, but why spend more than a minute pining for someone under 18 with something like 1,900,000,000 women in the world over eighteen — shockingly impractical numbers of whom are wonderfully attractive?

Yes, an 18th birthday is a semi-arbitrary age. Yes, pedophiles and ephebophiles argue that Romeo’s Julie was only 12 (though the don’t mention she also committed suicide the same year because her immaturity kept her from managing her romantic and physical entanglement.) And yes, many people are biologically and emotionally ready either before 18, or are still unready after. Nevertheless, by law and convention 18 it is.

Especially since it’s just a matter of time before anyone you’re that excited about is going to turn 18 anyway?

Note: I raise this in the context of under- and of-age women because I’ve been getting another raft of porn-related spam inviting me to see “barely legal” teenage women. The point applies equally to “barely legal” and older men as well — of whom there are also roughl 1,900,000,000 walking around the world at any given moment, again an impractically large number are going to be attractive, attentive, considerate, and single. Romeo fared no better than Juliet.

Update: I reposted this because the old entry kept insisting it was published May 18th. Sorry if this breaks anyone’s links.