It is generally not illegal to fall in love with minors, but it is not allowed to restrict personal freedom or infringe on human rights by other means. It is prohibited to abduct, kidnap, and abuse minors, and to sexually assault minors. It is prohibited to coerce, trick or use minors to beg or organize minors to perform activities that are harmful to their physical and mental health. However, it is illegal to have sex with underage girls online.

This kind of obscene behavior, such as suspected of spreading obscene pictures or obscene information during chatting, is illegal and does not constitute a crime, and will be punished by the public security organs in accordance with the "Public Security Management Punishment Law" 》, the person shall be detained by public security for a period ranging from 1 to 15 days.

Generally speaking, online dating with minors is not illegal (the law does not expressly prohibit it, it is allowed by default, and at most it is only subject to moral condemnation). But if someone lures an underage girl into committing suicide, or instigates or coerces her to give her family property to him in the name of love, then it involves the crime of rape (raping a young girl) or fraud.

1. Why online dating is vulnerable

1. The Internet is not limited by time and space and provides a perfect space for "pure" spiritual communication. Online communication can give people a sense of intimacy that is difficult to provide in "traditional ways", and it can also provide the "sense of distance" necessary for people's spiritual communication. It provides "space" for imagination, thereby generating a sense of beauty. It can make people who have never met face-to-face Strangers quickly become confidants and even fall in love.

2. However, the main means of online communication is computer input. The two parties involved in online dating rely solely on language to communicate. Some of their own shortcomings no longer become obstacles to self-expression. Some people will idealize themselves. Play the successful role you aspire to be. Many innocent girls place their emotions on the Internet, but when it comes to real emotions, many people's fantasies will be wiped out.

2. There are two forms of online dating

1. The first is online dating in a pure sense, that is, meeting and falling in love purely on the Internet without any real contact;

2. The second type is the combination of the Internet and reality, that is, meeting and falling in love on the Internet, and then developing love and marriage in real life

3. Deviations in online dating Behavior

1. The main purpose of surfing the Internet is to find friends of the opposite sex.

2. Continuously search for information on making friends with the opposite sex on dating websites. After three or four days of chatting, it quickly developed into online dating.

3. Adopt an avoidant attitude towards heterosexual interactions in real life, and dare not face up to the conflicts and setbacks, mutual assistance and supervision, loyal commitment and economic consumption in normal love.

To sum up, it is illegal to chat with underage girls. However, if you are suspected of spreading obscene pictures or obscene information during the chat, this behavior is illegal. Send obscene messages multiple times. Anyone who interferes with the normal life of others by posting, insulting, threatening or other information shall be detained for not more than 5 days or fined not more than 500 yuan; if the circumstances are serious, he shall be detained for not less than 5 days but not more than 10 days, and may be fined not more than 500 yuan.

Legal basis:

"Criminal Law of the People's Republic of China"

Article 236 Rape of women by violence, coercion or other means , shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of not less than three years but not more than ten years. Anyone who commits adultery with a girl under the age of fourteen shall be treated as rape and shall be severely punished.

Anyone who rapes a woman or rapes a young girl under any of the following circumstances shall be sentenced to fixed-term imprisonment of more than ten years, life imprisonment or death:

(1) Rape a woman or rape a young girl if the circumstances are egregious ;

(2) Rape women and rape young girls in large numbers;

(3) Rape women and rape young girls in public in public places;

(4) Gang rape by two or more people;

(5) Rape of a young girl under ten years of age or causing harm to a young girl;

(6) Causing serious injury or death to the victim or causing other serious consequences.