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Honestly, the obsession with 18 Specifically is also disingenuous. Many countries consider 16 to be an appropriate age. Some consider 18 to be too young. This obsession of "18 okay. 17 A LITERAL INFANT!!!" is just ridiculous. And I would bet money that this comment will have people clutching their pearls and accusing me of being a predator.
it's specifically stupid when it's high schoolers dating, omg one is 18 and one is 17 !!!!!
The US has literally charged teenagers for distributing CP, because they exchanged pictures with each other.... The entire country is just fuckin' bonkers.
More than that, if the legal age of consent was 40, then 41 would be "barely legal". Why do people use the term negatively (or positively for that matter). It's just so arbitrary.
Because it's moral posturing. I saw a post not long ago for an advertisement for alcohol-free beer. Clearly targeted at late teens and early 20's, and it was called "Under-Age beer! Great for driving!" And there were swarms of people complaining that "Advertising beer to children is awful!"
Believe it or not, most of the US has the age of consent below 18, even before factoring in Romeo and Juliette laws. I'm sure there are some restrictions on making use of that information, use of sex toys being banned being one of them if I recall and making porn being banned until 18 regardless, but 18 is hardly a universal thing even here.