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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. I know it sickens me too
Most of the developed world is 16 yeah ? Australia is. Hell you can soon vote in elections at 16 in the UK.
Indeed, America's weird in that in quite a few states you're able to fuck adults and drive at 16, but you still go to school and can't vote until 18, when you can join the army and take on tons of debt, but you can't drink or smoke till 21, and you can't rent a car until 25.