In Kentucky the age of consent is indeed 16, generally, but the statute is hideously complex about whether or not it's a crime for someone older than 18 to be involved. I'm not admitted in Kentucky and can't parse that thicket of language. All I knew at the time, though (this was the 80s), was that a beautiful and bubbly neighbor girl who had seemed completely unattainable just weeks before came back from college over winter break and suddenly she was sucking my dick.

Seventeen, by the way, is old enough to join the Marine Corps or the Navy and get your ass shot off in a foreign land.