If you don't like the law, call your congressperson and ask for a change.
However, it would not do the OP any good to act according to your wishes as to how the world should be and find himself in big boy prison.
This is a legal site. If you want to debate the appropriateness of the law or the logic behind it, take it to another "discussion" post.
All those posts do here is confuse an obviously already confused person.
To the OP...
Regardless of 'what should be's and could've's, you are bound by the laws of the state, city, count and municipality in which you are physically present in at the time of the crime's commission.
By that law, you may not, repeat not, have sex with anyone under the age of 18.
However, it would not do the OP any good to act according to your wishes as to how the world should be and find himself in big boy prison.
This is a legal site. If you want to debate the appropriateness of the law or the logic behind it, take it to another "discussion" post.
All those posts do here is confuse an obviously already confused person.
To the OP...
Regardless of 'what should be's and could've's, you are bound by the laws of the state, city, count and municipality in which you are physically present in at the time of the crime's commission.
By that law, you may not, repeat not, have sex with anyone under the age of 18.