Whenever I relay these issues to my wife she dismisses them with "15 year olds know what they're doing" and "you know what you're doing at 14." She's right. These allegations are nothingburger distractions from actually raping actual children. Using the same word for a teenager who can bear children and a little kid that has bo puberty at all is twisted and weird and discredits any movement toward protecting actual innocents
Werent you all like 13 when you took your oath to christ and a church and all the grownups and family said you were your own moral agent now? Or were bar mitvahed and called a man? It's hyperbolic and disingenuous.
Yeah I'm not advocating for relationships with 15 year olds but this is the correct take. You can't change your mind 10 years later after the fame and fortune have worn off and call take-backsies for social credit.
A naive 15-year-old girl who mistook a manipulative sexual predator for a caring mentor and was then groomed and exploited wasn't out there trading sex for fame. She was groomed and then statutorily raped by someone she trusted, which can have devastating emotional and physical consequences that she, as a child, would not have anticipated. That's why we have statutory rape laws, to protect children who may be sexually developed but are not yet full adults.
Whenever I relay these issues to my wife she dismisses them with "15 year olds know what they're doing" and "you know what you're doing at 14." She's right. These allegations are nothingburger distractions from actually raping actual children. Using the same word for a teenager who can bear children and a little kid that has bo puberty at all is twisted and weird and discredits any movement toward protecting actual innocents
Werent you all like 13 when you took your oath to christ and a church and all the grownups and family said you were your own moral agent now? Or were bar mitvahed and called a man? It's hyperbolic and disingenuous.
Yeah I'm not advocating for relationships with 15 year olds but this is the correct take. You can't change your mind 10 years later after the fame and fortune have worn off and call take-backsies for social credit.
A naive 15-year-old girl who mistook a manipulative sexual predator for a caring mentor and was then groomed and exploited wasn't out there trading sex for fame. She was groomed and then statutorily raped by someone she trusted, which can have devastating emotional and physical consequences that she, as a child, would not have anticipated. That's why we have statutory rape laws, to protect children who may be sexually developed but are not yet full adults.
amen.