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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
I also think context is important, when I started working in group homes in the early eighties male teachers sleeping with older students was in no way uncommon, I worked with younger male staff who were my age, early twenties, who openly talked about sleeping with the older girls as a perk of the job, I never did and never thought it was ok but I never thought of it as 'abuse' when I was pretty much ok with sleeping with 17 an 18 year old girls as a 22 year old outside of work, the only part that weirded me out was the work part, not the age.
If one of my mates had been shagging a 17 year old when we were 24 or 25 I would have ribbed him unmercifully, made his life a living hell taking the piss out of him but back in the early eighties but I wouldn't have thought of that as abuse, nor would anyone have thought a rock star in his mid twenties shagging a teenager over 16 was anything other than a perk of being a rock star
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Ya this troubles me as your a person who works with kids. This isn't something you should have ever been ok with. Me and my circle of friends didn't ever think this was ok and we actually laid the boots to a guy in our circle of friends who bragged about this . But we were heavily tattooed and peirced dirtbag metal heads so what would we know about right and wrong.
Your "in context" is what fuelled things for decades. The "back then" is a lazy excuse for justification.