People who support Trump often say “I don’t see him as a weird sex guy” but if you’re not from the NY Metro area in the 80’s to mid 90’s, you have no idea how normalized pedophilia and near pedophilia was. Seinfeld openly dated a 17yo in the late 90’s even. One of my grammar school teachers was an open pedophile, and NO adults cared. The kids just all tried to avoid being the kid who caught his fancy the year you have him. They eventually did fire him much later in the late 90’s as the culture shifted, but this shit was tolerated to celebrated for at least like 16 years regionally.
The OG Gossip Girl novels are literally about high schoolers dating adult bankers, it’s not even like it was a secret even after the culture started to shift.
In my state it’s 16 and they recently met to decide if they wanted to raise it to 18… and decided not to.
There was actually a news story a few months back about how the cops had to let a 40 year old who met with and had sex with a 16 year old girl on the internet go much to the complaint of the father because as far as the state was concerned… the latter was legally an adult and could make her own sexual choices.
The idea that this stuff is wrong is newer than you might think.
People who support Trump often say “I don’t see him as a weird sex guy” but if you’re not from the NY Metro area in the 80’s to mid 90’s, you have no idea how normalized pedophilia and near pedophilia was. Seinfeld openly dated a 17yo in the late 90’s even. One of my grammar school teachers was an open pedophile, and NO adults cared. The kids just all tried to avoid being the kid who caught his fancy the year you have him. They eventually did fire him much later in the late 90’s as the culture shifted, but this shit was tolerated to celebrated for at least like 16 years regionally.
I didn’t realize NY had an especially open culture around it, I wonder why
The OG Gossip Girl novels are literally about high schoolers dating adult bankers, it’s not even like it was a secret even after the culture started to shift.
Even now in NY the age of consent is 17
In my state it’s 16 and they recently met to decide if they wanted to raise it to 18… and decided not to.
There was actually a news story a few months back about how the cops had to let a 40 year old who met with and had sex with a 16 year old girl on the internet go much to the complaint of the father because as far as the state was concerned… the latter was legally an adult and could make her own sexual choices.
The idea that this stuff is wrong is newer than you might think.
Most of the developed world is 16 yeah ? Australia is. Hell you can soon vote in elections at 16 in the UK.