It seems my life has been spent at a campsite. One of my first affairs was with a friend's mother. I was 17 she was 38. That ended for good reasons, but we stayed friends until she died (and her son hopefully still doesn't know). When I was 18 she was a 36-year-old coworker. I ended that one when she appeared to want more than a secret fling. The next year when I was 19 I moved in with my 31-year-old girlfriend. Actually, since she was a lapsed Catholic I may have had more sexual experience than she did, and I was way more adventurous and desirous than she, but the relationship was of equals (as much as it could be). It ended after seven years, badly, but not due to the age difference. After that I found and married a woman exactly my age (two months older). That lasted 19 years. After that it was a woman five years younger than me (notice the trend?) and we lasted five years. I am now 50 and married to a Chinese woman who is 29. Given her age I can't call this a campsite. She had enough experience before me that she is a full-fledged adult. While there is total sharing as partners, I often play the role of elder and teacher, but she has a history of pursuing older men, so she likes and expects and even requires that.

Along the way I had a what I consider to be a more standard campsite story that involved my 17-year-old babysitter. This story is long and some parts may sound somewhat apocryphal and straight out of Penthouse forum, but I can promise you it's true. After long consideration and a several year opportunity window I did not pursue things with her. Partly based on my marriage, partly based on what I felt was her mental instability, and partly based on the small voice in my head saying, "Ick!" Ten years later the only regret I have is that I would have been a great camp counselor. Soon after I moved out of her life she encountered some serious issues that were sexually related (another long story that can actually be Googled). I doubt that I could have saved her, but at the least I truly think she could have benefited from my tutelage.

I don't know how I would evaluate the campsite rule in my life. Looking back I have no issue with how the older women treated me and I hope that I always treated my loved ones with care and respect.

CNDKITTI lost me at "I was unknowingly exposed to death risk when he insisted we have unprotected sex to make a baby." You had unprotected sex with a boy 17 years younger than yourself with the intention of conceiving? How were you honoring the campsite rule again?