Okay, orcainutah. I get it. The Internet is like the Wild West, particularly if you are young. I used to live in California, so I know what goes on out there in terms of it being less sheltered for adolescents than other parts of the nation. Your article was undoubtedly interesting. However, a major problem that I have with many of these online vigilantes who try to intercept adult men who attempt to meet up with teenage girls via the Internet is that they promote the misconception that older men are the cause of all underage teenage girls' problems, and that is not necessarily so.

As much as our society spends time worrying about a middle-school or high-school girl crossing over to the other side of the legal age line with some older man she met online in her romantic pursuits whether he be 35 years old or only 19 years old, I cannot understand why our society goes so easy on deadbeat teenage fathers who are still minors.

When a 13-, 14- or 15-year-old girl thinks that she has found the love of her life with some school hunk in her class, and he pressures her into having sex with him before she feels ready and he turns on her like a betraying angel after he gets her pregnant, I don't understand how anyone can consider such a scenario to be normal adolescent behavior. And there are a lot of teenage boys doing this sort of thing inasmuch as they figure that they can get away with it so long as they are minors. They should be drafted into the military on their eighteenth birthday.

And doesn't society send a mixed message to our youth whenever it leads a young girl between 12 and 17 years old to believe that she is a victim if she has sex with an older man she has hooked up with in an online chat room but that if she gets pregnant with the baby of a boy the same age, then she is always a slut? That to me is a double standard, and no young girl should ever be given those mixed messages.

Just a thought.