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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
jailbait

also jail bait, jail-bait, "girl under the legal age of consent," 1930, from jail (n.) + bait (n.).

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jailbait

n. (context slang English) A sexually attractive person, usually a female, who is sexually mature but below the legal age of consent; so named because the penalty for adult sexual intercourse with such a person is usually imprisonment.

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Jailbait (2004 film)

Jailbait is a 2004 psychodrama film written and directed by Brett C. Leonard. It stars Stephen Adly Guirgis and Michael Pitt and is set in an unnamed prison in California. The film received numerous independent film nominations and was awarded the Lake Placid Film Festival Grand Jury Prize.

Jailbait (disambiguation)

Jailbait is slang for a minor who is younger than the age of consent for sexual activity, with the implication that an older person might find him or her sexually attractive.

Jailbait or Jail Bait may also refer to:

Jailbait (web series)

Jailbait is an American improvised comedy web series starring John Lehr as Oswald "Ozzie" O'Connor, a guy who accidentally buys drugs in a sting operation and is sent to prison. Ten episodes premiered on April 1, 2011 on Crackle.com Robert Clendenin is also a reoccurring character in the show. It was not renewed for a second season.

Jailbait

Jailbait or jail bait is slang for a person who is younger than the legal age of consent for sexual activity, with the implication that a person above the age of consent might find them sexually attractive. The term jailbait is derived from the fact that engaging in sexual activity with someone who is under the age of consent is classified as statutory rape or by an equivalent term. The minor deemed sexually attractive is thus a temptation to an older person to pursue them for sexual relations at the risk of being sent to jail if caught.

Jailbait (book)

Jailbait: The Politics of Statutory Rape Laws in the United States is a 2004 non-fiction book by Carolyn Cocca, published by the State University of New York Press. It discusses the ages of consent in the United States.

Chapter 1 analyzes the general history of statutory rape policies in the U.S., while Chapters 2, 3, and 4 discuss how states revised and adopted the laws in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Each of the three other chapters discusses a particular aspect of the revisions and adoptions: Respectively they are the age revisions, gender-neutral language, and revisions related to 1990s social welfare policies concerning teenage pregnancy, race, and deadbeat fathers.

Usage examples of "jailbait".

She had started her freshman year right after her sixteenth birthday, and what college man in his right mind would go out with a girl who was legally still jailbait, when there were so many legal lovelies both willing and available?

The Schvantz skin-popped White Horse and loved jungle-bred jailbait hot off a slave boat from Zanzibar.