History Main / JailBait

* In Creator/Lifetime movie ''Stalked At 17'', a college student willingly has sex with a sixteen/seventeen-year-old girl. Note: the setting is in [[TruthInTelevision California and the age of consent is 18]].

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In RealLife, it is a [[NoSexAllowed serious crime]] for a legal adult to have sex with a minor who is below the age of consent, usually 16-18 in North America and 14-18 in Europe, but in Western works is almost always assumed to be 18 thanks to SoCalization and ArtisticLicenseLaw. The national age of consent in Japan is [[ValuesDissonance infamously]] 13, but in practice there are local or prefectural laws in most places raising it to 16 or higher.

'''Archer:''' ''Exactly!'' Plus, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint the Europeans use the metric system, so...]]

* A flash game on NewGrounds deals with this trope, in which the viewer is asked to [[SchmuckBait identify whether the featured celebrity]] is JailBait or legal. [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/192840 Surprisingly safe for work,]] but expect to be called a CovertPervert if you guess wrong with ''actual'' jailbait, and AmbiguouslyGay if you guess wrong if they're legal. Also playing it requires knowledge of how old the celebrities were ''when the game was made''. Several years on, all of those who appear in the game are now of legal age.

%%* In the Iron City Houserockers' "Junior's Bar", the singer tries to hit on a girl who is "seventeen, and that's old enough for me". However, she disappears before he can even make a move on her.
* Loudon Wainwright III implies an underage fan in "Motel Blues." ("Chronologically I know you're young, but when you kissed me in the club, you bit my tongue.")

* Music/JimmyBuffett gets right down to brass tacks: "Hittin' on the honeys right out of high school, Yeah, fifteen may get you twenty, but that's all right, "Cause they're rockin' and a rollin' on a Livingston Saturday Night"

* In ''Film/AnimalHouse'', Clorette blurts out "I'm only 13" during a makeout session. The line was actually a CensorDecoy put in so that the writers could get away with "I'm only 17" as a "compromise", but it went though without modification.

* In ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', the Ice King obsessively tries to kidnap and/or marry princesses, Bubblegum Princess in particular. When he sees that she's been temporarily turned into a thirteen-year-old, he immediately flies away with a dejected "Well, I'm outta here."

* ''Series/FakingIt'': Shane is likely this for Duke (depending on their relative ages), since in Texas having sex with someone who's age 17 and under if you're more than three years older than them is in fact statutory rape. It's likely Shane is ''at most'' 17, while Duke's age is never said.

* In Creator/Lifetime movie ''Stalked At 17'', a college student willing has sex with a sixteen/seventeen-year-old girl. Note: The setting is in [[TruthInTelevision California and the age of consent is 18]].

* A flash game on NewGrounds deals with this trope, in which the viewer is asked to [[SchmuckBait identify whether the featured celebrity]] is JailBait or legal. [[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/192840 Surprisingly safe for work]], but expect to be called a CovertPervert if you guess wrong with ''actual'' jailbait, and AmbiguouslyGay if you guess wrong if they're legal. Also playing it requires knowledge of how old the celebrities were ''when the game was made''. Several years on, all of those who appear in the game are now of legal age.

* Andre Williams' 1957 single "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INLgdeUJWqM Jail Bait]]" obviously isn't the TropeNamer, but still.

* Proyecto Uno's cover of "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwKnhMCoqDA Nu nu]]" is about the singer going into a disco, picking an incredibly hot girl who was checking him, and then while dancing discovering that the girl is only 15 years old. The singer is scared and stupefacted at this revelation: "How I'm going to do / if the chick is hotter than my ex-girlfriend!"

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In modern fiction, this is often used to display that EvenEvilHasStandards, seeming as most - but not all - villains in fiction condemn such actions. (Unlike real ones, sadly.) Villains who ''do'' are often regarded [[CompleteMonster as pretty vile.]]

** One show had Bud's - admittedly hot - teacher coming onto him; proving this is a line he won't cross, Al actually [[ItMakesSenseInContext delayed his plans to crash a kids party]] in order to try to talk him out of it, and later called the police on her. (Unfortunately, [[MistakenIdentity it led to the wrong teacher being arrested]].)
** There was an unsuccessful SpinOffcalled ''Series/{{Top of the Heap}}'' (it only lasted seven episodes, but that was still longer than the other two attempts at spin-offs for the show.) In the first episode, an attractive teenaged girl tries to seduce the male protagonist; he suggests she come back "when you're not a felony."

* There was an unsuccessful SpinOff of ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' called ''Series/{{Top of the Heap}}'' (it only lasted seven episodes, but that was still longer than the other two attempts at spin-offs for the show.) In the first episode, an attractive teenaged girl tries to seduce the male protagonist; he suggests she come back "when you're not a felony."

* Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}:
** Pre-Crisis Supergirl was around fifteen when she crash-landed on Earth. She eventually grew up, but a quite infamous issue -which was promptly swept under the rug- has her adult [[Franchise/{{Superman}} cousin]] regretting that marrying his teen cousin isn't legal.

** Post-Crisis Kara. During [[DorkAge an infamous early run]], several older boys constantly hit on her, even though she was fifteen.
** In the Flashpoint universe, an older super-villain hits on Supergirl. In reaction she hits him, shouting "I'm sixteen, you creep!"

%%* The three main characters of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'' are all 14 years old, with a significant amount of fan service and UnresolvedSexualTension between them that grows worse as the series progresses to its traumatic conclusion.

%%* {{Supergirl}} can sometimes be this, DependingOnTheArtist.
%%* [[ComicBook/SubMariner Namor]] quickly shoots down Hope's flirting because she is underage. He might be willing to sleep with the queen of a bunch of lobster people, but he won't sleep with teenagers.

* In the Iron City Houserockers' "Junior's Bar", the singer tries to hit on a girl who is "seventeen, and that's old enough for me". However, she disappears before he can even make a move on her.

%%* MTV had a TV movie about this named after the trope. The reason why it's notable is that the titular jailbait later became the Pink Ranger on ''Series/PowerRangersSPD''.

* Music/TheRollingStones' "Stray Cat Blues" declares "I can see that you're just fifteen years old / But I don't want your ID." In live performances, MickJagger would often [[CrossesTheLineTwice adjust the girl's age downwards]].

-->--''{{Archer}}''

* Even Sterling {{Archer}}, for all the depraved sexual acts he's performed (willingly and otherwise), draws a line at underage women. Even when being informed that the girl in question is legal in the country he's in, he refuses to give in to her advances, showing it's more of a personal rule than actual being afraid of prosecution. It might even be the first time we see Archer have an actual set of principles.