Only an imbecile equates a person of 16 with one of 12 or 6, and no law grounded in such imbecility is worthy of obedience or even serious consideration. – “Still a Child“
You can say an action was wrong & abusive without pretending the victim was the sexual & emotional equivalent of a 7-year-old. One would think this would be obvious to any rational person, but nope; let a boundary violation or inappropriate sexual advance happen to a 14-year-old (who, let us remember, were considered young adults for most of human history & can still legally marry under some conditions in half of US states & many other countries), and suddenly rational people are calling it “child rape” as though we were discussing a violent pervert penetrating a screaming toddler. This helps nobody and accomplishes nothing except an expansion of the police state. I often wonder if all the hair-on-fire loons who go around screaming “child rape” and calling for decades-long sentences when a 17-year-old has consensual sex with his 15-year-old girlfriend even remember what it was like being a teenager, because I certainly do. And I can assure you that it wasn’t my 18 to 20-year-old partners who were taking advantage of me when I was 15, nor my 18 to 30-year-old partners when I was 16, nor my 21 to 40-year-old partners when I was 17; strangers guessing my age at that time invariably went with “25”, and I literally never got carded when buying booze, cigarettes and even (convenience-store) porn for my friends. No, my precocious self knew exactly what I was doing, and if someone seemed suspicious of my age I’d always claim 19 (easy enough by my second year at UNO, which I started at 17). I’m not saying there should necessarily be a sexual free-for-all the second a kid hits puberty; what I’m saying is that only a lawhead literally believes that the magical Age of Shazam results in a might-as-well-be-4-year-old instantly turning into a might-as-well-be-40-year-old at the stroke of midnight on Magic 18. You wanna make laws saying adults shouldn’t have sex with those below a certain age (which varies wildly from place to place, by the way)? Fine. But when you start putting weird exceptions and caveats on that, like “you can fuck your girlfriend but if you take a picture of her you’re a ‘sex offender’ ostracized from society for LIFE”, or “you can fuck your girlfriend legally this year but next year it will magically become rape even though you’ve been together longer, because reasons”, you lose the sympathy of any sane non-authoritarian.
Equating young people or adult women to children does not help them; it strips them of rights and agency and establishes the powerful legal precedent that they are moral imbeciles who need to be “protected” as wards of the State. And once that precedent is established, the State can and will use it to strip away their rights on the grounds of moral and intellectual incompetence, and can even “rescue” (arrest) them and “divert” (sentence) them to indefinite “protective custody” (imprisonment) in a “safe house” (jail) or “rehabilitation center” (prison) for as long as it wishes, because they’re not classified as criminals but “children” in need of “protection”. Until they commit a crime themselves, of course, at which point they magically become “adults” at the wave of a prosecutorial hand, even if they haven’t yet hit puberty. This evil madness happens every day in our society while pious “progressives” look on and pat themselves on the back for their “correct” terminology while real people’s lives are destroyed before they even graduate from high school, all because the “woke” are too prudish to admit humans don’t need a government certificate to be sexual beings, and too prissy to admit that sex is animalistic and chthonic, not some pretty fairy-tale rainbow magic that mystically appears in a burst of pastel hearts when two people of the “correct” age fall in love.
