We gotta check your browser history now too! I just know things because I'm smart and inquisitive, not because I'm trying to f!!! kids. So for example the age of consent is 18 in California, but 16 in Nevada. So does that mean I can take a 16 year old from California drive her to Nevada and have sex with her? NO! That's a crime! Specifically it's a violation of the Mann Act. Now how would I know that? Because I'm trying to screw a 16 year old? No, because I read/watch the news and saw that's what Matt Gaetz was charged with. It was legal for him to have sex with a 17 year old in Florida but not take her out of state. We should just make the age of consent 18 across the board we already have Romeo/Juliet laws for contemporary aged people.

if you're curious, i think none of those are under 16 so you should be good to go

Who said she was 16?

David himself.

Yes, Saura was 16, and David met her on a party line. She was a frequent runaway and had lots of issues at home. When her parents realized she was with David, they eventually decided to just leave it be, despite the fact that David was something like 50 at the time. David assured them that he would stabilize her life, and they figured he was the lesser of two evils (the other being Saura ending up on the streets).

Saura did eventually show up to 2p2, once in her mid-20s, and stated that David was an overall positive in her life.

However, obviously David wasn't helping her for magnanimous reasons. No 50-year-old single dude is inviting in a 16-year-old stranger out of the goodness of his heart. Clearly this was opportunistically predatory, and to satisfy his own perversions, rather than borne from a true desire to be helpful.

While it may very well be true that David's entry into Saura's life was beneficial to her, that was just a side effect. Middle-aged men should not be "helping" troubled teen girls where the payback is a sexual relationship.

Consider the source.

I should clarify something.

When I said she was 16, I was going by the story being told out here by David, and later by Saura. However, I have no independent confirmation that she was at least 16 when David started talking to her, or when he met her.

It is possible she was younger than that. Those were some rumors going around back in 2008 or so, but again, they're just rumors.

To me it doesn't matter much. 15 and 16 are relatively similar, especially when the man is around 50. As I said in the other post, the entire thing was very predatory, even if he twisted his mind to believe it was okay because he was also helping her straighten her life out.

Maybe I’m too young but wtf is a party line?

The original party lines dated back to the late 1800s in rural areas, where several households would share one phone line, and could listen in on each other's calls. I am old, but not quite old enough to remember that.

However, the late 20th century party lines were similar to chat rooms, except they were on the phone.

You'd call up a phone number, and just to talk whoever was on there. Some of the more advanced ones provided a way to leave the group chat and talk privately with specific people you'd meet on there. If that feature didn't exist, you'd have to take the chance and give out your phone number on the open line (or the other person would), thus inviting prank calls.

Some party lines were free, ran by hobbyists or those trying to promote other businesses. Others were lines which would charge you per minute. Even others charged a monthly subscription fee, but didn't charge per minute. Some even had a weird agreement with the phone company to where they were free to anyone who was a local call to them, but they'd get a share of the long distance money spent by everyone else to reach the line.

I'm not sure which type David called.

I will admit that I also called party lines in the '80s and early '90s, and like David, I met girls from there. I didn't specifically call for purposes of meeting girls, but if the opportunity presented itself, I went for it. The male/female ratio was very high (similar to poker), but let's just say the competition was very weak. As with everything in life, game selection matters. I only called the free ones, which were better because the pay lines were only called by really desperate people.

Unlike David, the girls I was meeting were near my age. I was also a young guy myself at the time. David is nearly 25 years my senior.

Since many of these lines had people from all over the country, it could be hard to meet up in person. For that reason, I only bothered pursuing girls who lived within 100 miles of me. It sounds like David was looking for young, troubled girls from anywhere in the country, and then would talk them into coming to Vegas to move in with him.

It was mostly a younger crowd on these things. This was great for me at the time, as most people were close to my age. I guess it was also great for David, given what he was seeking.

Even as recently as the 1950's (and maybe even into the 1960's), some rural areas still had party lines.

Wow, these party lines sound kind of cool. Would be great if someone started a poker related party line. Mason, is that something you would ever consider for 2+2?

Lol, they're "kind of cool" in the same way chat rooms are. Go check out Discord, I'm sure there are numerous poker related servers. Hell, there's probably one for 2p2 already.

all i can think of is twitter spaces where unless a moderator is muting people and asking those to speak one at a time it becomes an utter ****show once there's more than 7-8 people in the the mix and it's all just garbled stuff

wild

Grew up in a midsized city, lived in town. Def not rural. We had a party line well into 70’s. Not sure when it became private. Private line charged more and m6 parents never paid for one. Eventually all or nearly all poles on our circuits went private so the shared lines became effectively private. But I do recall in the mid 70’s for a short while we had a troublesome party.

Don’t recall anymore but there was a special way to call a party on your line. You dialed a 2 or 3 number, get a busy signal, hung up and all the numbers on that circuit would ring. When ringing stopped you picked up to talk with the other party. Was a PITA if you had more than 2 on your circuit because invariably the one you wanted did not pick. You would apologize, tell them who you wanted. Then you would both hang up trying to again and then this time that party knew not to pick up.

When dad finished the basement and put in second plug, we could use this as an intercom since all phones on the circuit rang.

There's a nice song by the Kinks about party lines.

I seem to remember something about pressing the cutoff buttons/hook down once.

i wont lie i find all this stuff very disturbing i know USA has weird laws on age etc

my main concern was mason malmouth he said his new book was written with said alleged paedophile

Mason must be quiet sure its only allegations to continue to do business with such a person for 30 +yrs:?


and the mod who deleted the original thread is also hand in hand with such people ???

Every time Dan Druff posts, I picture this:

news views gossip

i suspect the gossip was too close to homeeee

Dominic do u want to be part of this ?

not a good thread to e part of and i trust ur posts

Dominic virtue signaling for fellow pedophiles to unite, what a clown.

Quagmire here again, pedophilia is when a person is attracted to pre-pubescent children, ephebophilia is when a person is attracted to mid to late teens. Slumdog millionaire how do I know this? A comedian made a joke about it.

fyp

Speaking of funny laws, for decades Europe has united in defense of a convicted fugitive child rapist.