The line has to be drawn somewhere because the only alternative Ive seen is sex liscencing and that has eugenics issues.
18 seems like a reasonable place to draw it, though based on my experience talking to young people Id personally put it at 19.
or there could be different ages of consents for different ages. For example it could be illegal for someone over 25 to sleep with a teenager
I’m not like, FIRMLY against that idea despite my personal investment in the matter, but I do think trying to legislate away the agency of young adults is a bad path to go down. For me, I think a 19 year old is firmly capable of deciding who they want to love or fuck. And if coercion of some kind is used, then that can be approached legally because coercion was used.
I’m not saying arrest the younger party of the relationship. I would consider them the victim here
I think a 19 year old is definitely not capable of entering a relationship with a 25 year old on equal terms let alone a 50 year old. They have only begun to be adults at that point
