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Originally Posted by 81MC
I’m with you.
Except age of consent is 16 in the UK, has been for some time. So by beating up anyone for having sex with a 17 year old, the only person committing a crime is you.
Do I agree with it? Not at all. But then again, what gives you the right to tell a young woman what she can and can’t do, and with whom?
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I think maybe all of you are missing my point, I in no way think any teacher or youth worker sleeping with any client is ok, I dont think college prof's should be sleeping with their adult students, that is my 59 year old morality with a lifetime of experience of dealing with vulnerable clients has taught me in 2021, at 21 in 1981 when I first started working in a group home I had no clue about any of this, I was supervising kids, girls and boys of 14 to 19 who (generally the older ones) I would often see in the same clubs and bars I was going to, I actually had to change my hang outs to avoid this, I had no notion of vulnerabilty or a moral dimension in my first few years, I recognized that there was a standard of 'professionalism' I wished to maintain to keep my job.
In those days girls regularly got married at 16 and had kids, almost all kids left high school and started work at 16, in fact almost all of the kids I was supervising in the group home went to work every morning, several girls at my high school dropped out to get married and start a family, any girl over 16 was seen as an adult both legally and morally then.
I therefore draw a distinction in the way I judge the action of a 25 year old in the mid seventies who slept with a teenager they could reasonably assume was over 16 and so therefore seen as an adult in the context of that society, the equivalent to these days would be Leonardo DiCaprio, he is in his forties and dates mostly 20 year olds, I think that's skeezy as hell but I dont think he's a pervert just a pathetic human being