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** Sherry is attempting statutory rape, and Jordan does actually commit it (or is implied to), but the movie simply ignores this.
*** Sherry says she's been waiting for Mitch to be "old enough", presumably to be old enough to make his own decision about whether he wanted to have sex or not, as opposed to old enough by the law. Considering that Mitch proceeds to turn her down, and chooses to instead go have sex with Jordan, she was clearly right about him being old enough to make his own decisions. Eighties movies in general were surprisingly un-shy about portraying teenagers as being perfectly willing and capable of deciding to have sex whether it was legal or not, often without world-destroying consequences.
*** Sherry is only attempting statutory rape if the age of consent in their state is over age sixteen, which it is in many states. Sure, this is a fictional [[Expy]] of Cal Tech and California's age of consent is age eighteen, but since its not ''actually'' Cal Tech they have wiggle room to say 'and this is not actually California, either'. So, we don't know, but given that Sherry's dialogue actually uses the words "I was waiting until you were old enough", Occam's Razor suggests 'Mitch just hit the age of consent'.
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