It’s not illegal, but it’s still weird, creepy and potentially harmful and no amount of lambasting about “the problematic age gap discourse” will make it not true.
Struggle session not related to the revolution, struggle session for its own sake, is useless.
:kim:
Leftists: “What two consenting adults do in the bedroom is not anyone else’s business.”
Also leftists: This
Power dynamics.
I mean, power dynamics are something that needs to be considered to make a healthy relationship, but all relationships have power dynamics. I mean, the power dynamics between men and women in general is likely more intense than the specific gap that of a 26 year old and a 19 year old.
Everyone under the age of 25 should be strapped to a booster seat and given a binky and a rattle
Power dynamics.
Power dynamics.
I am 23. Whenever I accidentally come across nude pictures of an 18 year old (sometimes unavoidable on the internet, even when not searching for it) my immediate reaction is “ew, that is a child, I don’t want to see that”
I cannot imagine what kind of disgusting freak you have to be to pursue these children into your 30s and 40s. :gulag:
someday we will study what drives people to constantly start conversations with random strangers about who should and should not be having sex, imagining all the details that make them angry and constantly proposing new rules about it
Insufficient concentrations of Orgone Energy is my bet.
:shrug-outta-hecks:
I could believe a lot of such relationships aren’t for the best, but I was dating 17 years my senior @ 18 and 31 years my senior @ 28. With that background, I’m fine with it personally.
I was dating 17 years my senior @ 18
yeah nothing sus about a 35 year old “dating” a high school student :ursus-hexagonia:
When I was 18 and in college I dated a 33 year old. I was fully aware of what I was doing and of the age gap. Don’t really see what’s so problematic about it
The problems not with you but with the older person who, it seems, would date a 15 yo if they could.
Source?
If you, at 35, will date an 18 yo, what’s stopping you from dating a 17 or 16 yo other than legality? You clearly already find people that age attractive.
Under communism the age of consent will be 45:garf-troll:
well no because 19 year olds can go out with 18 year olds and that’s fine
We can still have Romeo and Juliet laws
wasn’t juliet like 13
Yes, and Romeo’s age is never given
:thinking-about-it:
States adopted these laws because like high school sophomores would date freshmen and end up on the sex offenders list. The age range varies itself from state to state.
As a former 19 y/o who was having sex with people that age and older- it entirely depends, but if you’ve done kink and consent education you probably have better boundary skills than most adult USians, and more experienced people showing you the ropes is nice.
But this is coming from a lesbian perspective and 19 y/o shouldn’t be dating 26 y/o.
There are definitely 19 year olds that can date older.
The problem is that there are also definitely 19 year olds that can’t and it fucks them up when they’re manipulated. The reason this is a baity question is because it resides right at the edge of it all becoming ok.
