Correct, but only partially so. How most of US law deals with this is ridiculous (i.e. the older partner becoming a sex offender). If two minors within a certai

Correct, but only partially so. How most of US law deals with this is ridiculous (i.e. the older partner becoming a sex offender). If two minors within a certain age range have sex, they may theoretically be "raping each other", but considering that an actual criminal offense in itself is absurd. Now, an adult having sex with a child on the other hand is obviously acting criminally. It's the adult's responsibility to act in the child's best interests due to the child's lack of ability to give consent -- even if the child (for whatever reason) engages it, it's against their best interests to follow through. As for sexually active "minors" and very young adults, especially at very narrow age ranges, that's not as trivial to answer. A hard cut-off seems the most straightforward answer but creates absurd outcomes in edge cases (e.g. someone who just turned 18 having sex with someone about to turn 18 in a country where 18 is the age of consent would be considered a rapist but not if both of them were just a tiny bit younger or older). I guess it's best to have case law deal with these situations individually. Maybe I should clarify that the reason I used the word "kids" was to make it clear we're not specifically talking about "children" in the intuitive sense. The danger that six year olds will randomly decide to have sex with each other is relatively low (if we ignore "sex play", which is a different can of worms). That's not what the article is about. We're specifically talking about "kids" (i.e. minors, which depending on where you live can include anyone between 12 and 21) who are fairly likely to be already sexually active without any external motivation/dissuasion.