Cavey wrote:
*Of course* the age of a 16 year old girl's partner makes a difference.
People are fixated about sex itself - the physical act. But what I'm talking about is the mental manipulation that a mature man, with the benefit of his years, is able to deploy in order to bed such a vulnerable young child in the first place, and then no doubt cause significant mental damage/hurt as a result of such a relationship?
This is true if you assume someone's being manipulated but that's your addition to the scenario, not mine. If a 16 year old wants to have consensual sex what's the difference if that sex is with another 16 year old or a 50 year old?
Cavey wrote:
Last I'm going to say on this as it's tiresome, frankly. If people think it's OK for Rolf Harris or anyone else in their 50s to have sex with 16 year olds - then that's YOUR problem, not mine.
I didn't realise that asking someone their opinion on something automatically meant you condone the subject of the question. When did that become a thing?