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I find this whole discussion a bit unseemly, not to mention riddled with hypocrisy. We can court a 17-year-old for recruitment to the military, we can try a 17-year-old as an adult, saying a 17-year-old is not mature enough to contemplate a relationship is the equivalent of using the arbitrarily drawn definition of "adult" when it serves our convenience. A mentor has dinner with a mentee .... So what? I wonder if a homosexual male mentor took a mentee to dinner if we would have questioned the reasons for having dinner?

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