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(7,039 posts)11 or 12 years old is "not a young woman." She is a GIRL. Not grown up enough no know fully what sex with a man could entail, what damage it can do to her... both physically and emotionally.
I get so tired of seeing the monikers "girl" and "woman" thrown around willy-nilly depending on the situation. They choose the moniker based on how it would make them seem. Granted, girls have been maturing physically earlier and earlier since at least the 1970's... and I don't know whether to blame it on environmental or agricultural reasons. At one time, it was thought all the soy (thus, estrogen) in our diet was causing these adverse effects. I haven't heard anything about it for so long, it's like they just kind of dropped the whole thing and are letting "nature take its course" as well as let men follow up on it.
And, to be honest... I see a lot of it where the male of species is concerned, too. If the action or event is bad, these are "men" but if it's rape-related or otherwise like that, then it's just "boys being boys." We've got a very screwed up sense of gender, sex, and age among people. The Puritans did us no good in demanding their ideas be adopted as Mainstsream.