Certainly, a 13-year-old child is capable of knowing the differencebetween right and wrong and of being held responsible for his actions,and that is all it really means to become a bar mitzvah.

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Mike, you may like it...:-) very informative...
and your theory about releasing something didn't materialize...:-)
There is evidence in the respons a literature thatJewish women engaged in prostitution, and no doubt there were also Jewswho lived on pimping, but there is no data to the extent. The halakhahliterature in the Middle Ages mentions several regulations againstJewish prostitutes and against Jews who frequented gentile prostitutes,but the prostitute was entitled to claim her fee (Rema). At the end ofthe Middle Ages it was laid down that a married man who frequentedprostitutes was obliged to give his wife a divorce.

you keep bringing up marriage, yet the age of consent that Judge Ginsburg was referring to, was the consent to take part in sexual activity - not the same thing as marriage. you yourself stated "Certainly, a 13-year-old child is capable of knowing the differencebetween right and wrong and of being held responsible for his actions,and that is all it really means to become a bar mitzvah."

At the end ofthe Middle Ages it was laid down that a married man who frequentedprostitutes was obliged to give his wife a divorce.
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well that's adultery... but what's wrong with a single man visiting a prostitute? what's the difference whether he spends $200 on dinner or just hands her the money - if he's still getting sex at the end of the night?