History Main / JailBait

* Used on the now-defunct website "[[https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/marry-our-daughter/ marryourdaughter.com]]," which deliberately invoked PoesLaw, in order to draw attention to inconsistencies in US marriage laws concerning the age of consent. The website purported to offer teenage girls (some as young as 13) for sale to prospective grooms, provided they paid the requested bride price (anywhere from a few hundred to hundreds of thousands of dollars) and submitted a sufficiently suitable "proposal" to the girl via her profile. (Needless to say, the profiles were all fake, and no proposal was found to be sufficiently suitable.) It was purported as a way for parents to get rid of {{Bratty Teenage Daughter}}s they didn't want to deal with anymore, earn money (and have one less mouth to feed), and for [[TheFundamentalist fundamentalist]] parents to [[ArrangedMarriage marry their daughters off]] [[Literature/TheBible Biblically]].

* [[Creator/WillSmith DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince]], in their song "Parents Just Don't Understand," sees the main protagonist -- while driving his father's Porsche without permission -- picking up a totally hot babe on the street ... only to learn later (after he is arrested for speeding) she is only ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis 12 years old!]]''

* Music/{{Winger}}'s most popular song, "Seventeen," is about a man who meets a woman he is intensely attracted to, and his surprise when she tells him "I'm only seventeen."

* "Little Girls" by Music/OingoBoingo is all about how the speaker "loves little girls." It's either a creepy song from the point of view of a pedophile, or a parody of this kind of song taken to its logical extreme, or both.

* Although neither song contains anything inappropriate (even by 1950's standards), the two Music/ChuckBerry classics "Sweet Little Sixteen" (featuring, obviously a 16 years old) and "Little Queenie" (featuring a girl "too cute to be a minute over 17") take on a bit of this when you remember that the songs were written and performed by a man in his late 20s, early 30s. And the less said about "Sweet Little Rock and Roller" in this context, the better which is why covers of the song usually adjust the girl's age to nineteen.

* FleetwoodMac's "Edge of Seventeen" doesn't make it clear whether singer Stevie Nicks was that age or the boy she was seeing was, except the lyrics say "he was no more than a baby."

* ''Series/TooOldToDieYoung'': Martin, a 30-year-old police officer, is dating a 17-year-old girl in California, which is statutory rape. He started dating her when she was 16, after meeting her at a crime scene.

The age of consent is 16 in Canada, 30 U.S. states and the District of Columbia; it is 17 in eight states. This means the age of consent is under 18 in a majority of the states (38). However. because one of the remaining 12 that have 18 as the Age of Consent is California, popular belief is that the age of consent is 18 in ''all'' states.

*** Hilariously, after Wesley angsts about their age difference for several episodes Giles points out that she's eighteen, and that he "has the emotional maturity of a blueberry scone", meaning she's likely more capable of informed consent than he is.

%%* [[Creator/WillSmith DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince]], in their song "Parents Just Don't Understand," sees the main protagonist -- while driving his father's Porsche without permission -- picking up a totally hot babe on the street ... only to learn later (after he is arrested for speeding) she is only ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis 12 years old!]]''

%%* Music/{{Winger}}'s most popular song, ''Seventeen'', is about a man who meets a woman he is intensely attracted to, and his surprise when she tells him "I'm only seventeen."

%%* "Little Girls" by Music/OingoBoingo is either a creepy song from the point of view of a pedophile, or a parody of this kind of song taken to its logical extreme, or both.

** In the same vein (and the same year, 1978), "Are You Old Enough" by Australasian rock group Dragon.

%%* FleetwoodMac's ''Edge of Seventeen'' doesn't make it clear whether singer Stevie Nicks was that age or the boy she was seeing was, except the lyrics say "he was no more than a baby."

* FleetwoodMac's ''Edge of Seventeen'' doesn't make it clear whether singer Stevie Nicks was that age or the boy she was seeing was, except the lyrics say "he was no more than a baby."

* FleetwoodMac's ''Edge of Seventeen'' doesn't make it clear whether singer Stevie Nicks was that agw or the boy she was seeing was, except the lyrics say "he was no more than a baby."

The age of consent is 16 in Canada, 30 U.S. states and the District of Columbia; it is 17 in eight states. This mens the age of consent is under 18 in a majority of the states (38). However. because one of the remaining 12 that have 18 as the Age of Consent is California, popular belief is that the age of consent is 18 in ''all'' states.

* Music/JimCroce's "Five Short Minutes."("Five short minutes of love/Done brought me twenty long years in jail.")

* ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia: In the episode "The Gang Solves the North Korea Situation", a Korean girl falls in love with Charlie and follows him home. The two form a relationship, and Charlie, Mac, and Dennis decide to hose off her top to get guests at the bar. After her mother, the owner of the North Korean restaurant, tells Frank that she's only twelve years old, right as Dennis hoses her top off Frank bursts in at the last second and takes the shot in slow-motion. After being told that she's only twelve, the guests leave disappointingly.

%%** Lisa's only a year younger and has the hots for Yukinari. She's more than willing to let him [[NoNudityTaboo ogle her naked]] and has given him free license to [[ArentYouGoingToRavishMe do whatever he wants]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6aL3ZM_FzE with her.]] Except Yukinari usually bolts for the door, [[AllergicToLove due to his girl phobia]]... and because [[CuteAndPsycho Lisa's crazy.]]

* ''Series/TheOtherTwo'': Chase is only 13 when he becomes a tween heartthrob and is often subjected to the attentions of older, creepy fans. He is put in a music video that contains suggestive dancing, and he pretends to be in a relationship with a fellow tween star.

* 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 [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livingston,_Montana Livingston]] Saturday Night"

-->'''Lucy:''' What do you want? A jail sentence? I was talking about ''that'' guy.\\

* Male example in ''Literature/{{Haunted}}''. [[spoiler: Brandon Whittier is a thirteen-year-old boy suffering from progeria, which causes him to age at seven times the normal rate. He amasses a fortune by telling his nurses he's eighteen, begging them not to let him die a virgin, and then revealing his age and demanding money in exchange for not reporting them.]]

* In the British sitcom ''{{Series/Outnumbered}}'', there is the Brockmans' teenage son Jake, who is 15 and dating a lap-dancer who believes he's 17. [[spoiler: He eventually tells her this, at which point she reveals herself to be ''16'' and lap-dancing illegally]].

* In one episode of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'', one particularly JerkAss suspect alibies out of the [[BodyOfTheWeek Murder of the Week]] because he was having sex with a senator's seventeen-year-old daughter at the time. Ziva promptly (and rather smugly) arrested him for statutory rape.

* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', Sean gets into legal trouble for doing drugs with (and almost certainly sleeping with) underaged interns. He had a reputation for this before he joined the Facebook guys as indicated by Eduardo's comments, but it's [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation left somewhat ambiguous]] if Mark possibly took advantage of this to get rid of him.

* In ''Film/TheSocialNetwork'', Sean gets into legal trouble for doing drugs with (and almost certainly sleeping with) underaged interns.

* JimCroce's "Five Short Minutes."("Five short minutes of love/Done brought me twenty long years in jail.")