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Originally Posted by Anduril
It is pretty funny you know, with how much development occurs in a couple years. Higher level thinking, personal identity and values, hormone stabilization and general maturity. Yeah, haha.
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Considering the amount of development that occurs after 18, this isn’t much of a defence for a middle aged man sleeping with 18 year olds. I think the poster you’re responding too has it right, there is a dark humour and, in my opinion, and indicator as to part of the problem in the way some people celebrate older men sleeping with barely legal women.
Teenagers are not nearly fully developed at 18. Moreso than 14, of course, but the margin grows slimmer between the two as the age bracket closes.
I think looking at the hero worship over a 40+ year old hockey player sleeping with an 18 year old is interesting. Would anyone think your middle-aged friend was a hero if he started dating a 16, 17, or 18 year old? What if it was your daughter?
It’s interesting, at least, and definitely a lesser part of the culture that is being put under the broiler right now.