Reminder: if a 50-year-old man uses his power to pressure a reluctant 18-year-old woman into sex, the numbers 50 and 18 have literally... nothing... to... do... with why this is morally (or legally) wrong. Mrs. Grundy's salacious tut-tut about the woman's youth insults the woman.
I agree that in practice many 18-year-olds don't suddenly turn competent to choose cross-age relationships, but do you see how that's a negative judgment of those 18-year-olds? And how it's the *wrong time* to raise that question, when the event *wasn't* her own choice?
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Very true. Just trying to make sense of how inexperience is still a huge contributing factor to inequality in this situation, added to social status etc. Btw whole 'not her choice' argument brings to mind Catharine MacKinnon, as in deciding for adult women what is their choice...
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(And then the who decides that is my choice, and then the religious attire, and then the hormones and the sanity, and then the free will, and then the consequentialists, and then you sit down and cry --- and repeat from beginning.)
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I'm not usually a fan of arbitrary legalisms. But I think there's real wisdom in the decision to draw a silly arbitrary numerical boundary, and say "everyone on the other side of this sharp line gets to make their own decisions".
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Yeah, and they're supposed to be sober too, so no excuses!
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