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* In ''[[Mirai Nikki]]'', the two protagonists are both 14 years old. However, the story makes it ''reeeeeeeeeal'' easy to forget that fact. Besides almost being raped at one point, the female lead is constantly seen in a bra and panties (or less), chapter 52 {{spoiler|showcases the two of them having sex, complete with fully-exposed breasts.}} A case of [[Values Dissonance]] since the age of consent in Japan is 13.

* ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'' features Asuka Langley Soryu and Rei Ayanami, both of whom are 14 and who are repeatedly depicted sans clothes or in suggestive poses. As with the above example, it is a case of values dissonance.

* ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''{{'}}s titular character is yet another 14-year-old, who spends the majority of her ~~screentime~~ in a [[Stripperific|stripperiffic]] circus costume and is depicted as quite nubile, despite her age. This is often used for [[Fan Service]]; at one point she spent almost two full episodes nude.

* ''[[Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water]]''{{'}}s titular character is yet another 14-year-old, who spends the majority of her screen time in a [[Stripperific|stripperiffic]] circus costume and is depicted as quite nubile, despite her age. This is often used for [[Fan Service]]; at one point she spent almost two full episodes nude.

== Comic Books ==

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* [[Shotacon|Male example]] in ''[[Haunted (Palahniuk novel)|Haunted]]''. {{spoiler|Brandon Whittier is a thirteen-year-old boy suffering from progeria, which causes him to age at seven times the normal rate. He amasses a fortune by telling his nurses he's eighteen, begging them not to let him die a virgin, and then revealing his age and demanding money in exchange for not reporting them.}}

* In the early ''[[Posleen War Series]]'' novels, Cally O'Neill's apparent age, actual age, and willingness to defend her virtue at gunpoint caused posters with her picture on it to be put up all around her home town with the message: WARNING: Jailbait. To be considered armed and dangerous.

* ''[https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/7176 The Sexteens and the Fake Goddess]'' by Frederic Tremblay et al. bills itself as "The Most Controversial Teen Novel that Will Change your Life Forevermore". More likely, it would've silently passed under the radar along with the rest of the largely [[Self Published]] slushpile that is [[Smashwords]] – were it not for the minor detail that Mr. Tremblay was a high-school civics teacher. And chairman of the Ontario College of Teachers' discipline committee. And an elected member of the College's governing council. Ultimately, he resigned from everything [https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/jacques-tremblay-racy-teen-novel-author-quits-teaching-after-backlash-1.2741530 and gave up his teacher's licence].

== Live-Action TV ==

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* In one episode of ''[[NCIS]]'', one particularly [[Jerkass]] suspect alibied out of the [[Body of the Week|Murder of the Week]] because he was having sex with a senator's seventeen-year-old daughter at the time. Ziva promptly (and rather smugly) arrested him for statutory rape.

* British police drama ''[[The Bill]]'' had an interesting example. A drunken man picked up a very willing female partner in an adult nightclub and ended up bedding her. Some months later this girl's mother found out about it and reported them to the police since her daughter was under the age of consent (16 in the UK). The police established that the fourteen year old had deliberately used clothes and make up to make herself look older than she really was, and persuaded the male to confess, reasoning that he had been careless but that it wasn't really in the public interest to prosecute him so he would be given a slap on the wrist and let go. Then it transpired that the girl's birthday was incorrect due to adoption or some other reason, so she was actually thirteen. Except that a few months ago when the incident took place she was twelve, thus ~~meritting~~ a statutory rape charge. That the unwitting guy had just confessed to. Oops.

* British police drama ''[[The Bill]]'' had an interesting example. A drunken man picked up a very willing female partner in an adult nightclub and ended up bedding her. Some months later this girl's mother found out about it and reported them to the police since her daughter was under the age of consent (16 in the UK). The police established that the fourteen year old had deliberately used clothes and make up to make herself look older than she really was, and persuaded the male to confess, reasoning that he had been careless but that it wasn't really in the public interest to prosecute him so he would be given a slap on the wrist and let go. Then it transpired that the girl's birthday was incorrect due to adoption or some other reason, so she was actually thirteen. Except that a few months ago when the incident took place she was twelve, thus meriting a statutory rape charge. That the unwitting guy had just confessed to. Oops.

== Music ==

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* "Christine Sixteen" by [[Kiss]] is about an older man who becomes infatuated with a sixteen year old girl. Because of the controversial subject matter many radio stations refused to play the song when it was released in 1977.

* [[Winger|Winger's]] most popular song, "Seventeen", is about a man who meets a woman he is intensely attracted to, and his surprise when she tells him "I'm only seventeen."

* [[ABBA]]. ''[[wikipedia:Does Your Mother Know|Does Your Mother Know]]''?

** Inspired, according to Björn Ulvaeus, by a newspaper article. “It was most likely about predatory older men using younger women, and I had the idea of reversing the situation and creating a song about a man who, instead of trying to pick up a girl, turns round and says, ‘Oh, what are you doing out tonight, does your mother know that you’re out?’”[https://abbasite.com/articles/does-your-mother-know-the-anatomy-of-a-hit-single/]

** [[Mamma Mia!]] [[Inverted Trope|inverts the trope]] by having a lady singing this song.

* [[Joan Jett]], anyone? In her signature song, "I Love Rock and Roll", she declares "I knew he musta been about seventeen." Joan was 21 when she first covered the song on a recording.