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Tom B's avatar

Broadly agree with your conclusion here.

Even if teenage boys are on the whole much less likely to be victims of underage sex (with men or women), I don’t think the law or social norms should in any way encourage (or at least not actively discourage) teenage boys to have sex underage. Even if they’re lusting after a hot older woman who’s ’up for it’, their relative immaturity and inexperience makes them highly vulnerable to exploitation by the older woman.

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MikeT2976's avatar

First off, eggcellent article. No joke, hope this gets shared wide, its extremely well reasoned. I've thought same as a man actually, but never seen a woman write this. It is actually manipulative/rapey/weird when women age gap down. I agree, typical modern response is something like - the dude wuz lucky, wish I cudda been lucki too - but ur right this is just kicking can down the road. In that, the dude isnt gonna learn how to have healthy relationshipz by bangin some 35 yr old in heat (lol) and it's not productive to women long term either really. Great article!

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