America is a time warp sometimes. Warning, you will very likely not like this comment.
I met a person who dressed up in madame clothes and did walking tours of our Gaslamp Quarter, which was exactly like a red light district.
And before temperance hit, and rich white people blamed Chinatown and leveled all but one small block of it, we had brothels and opium dens everywhere.
The Stingaree was the colloquial neighborhood name for that section of downtown.
During this outlaw time the average prostitute age was 14 or 15. And that was normal. And had been normal the whole of human reproductive history until that point.
Then insert temperance and vice eradication. I think this was bound to happen when you let churchy laws against natural desire artificially change the age of sexual permissibility to something that contradicted biology - which was "fair game" a little after gaining viable child-bearing maturity. And natural selection drives almost every man to seek the most fertile and prime, and most women to seek the strongest and most providing (in traditional pre LGBT-era biological terms).
Part of the application of there being a natural dichotomy of biological genders also involves the age of when those animals want to start fucking each-other, which is shortly after the growth spurt to full reproductive maturity.
backed by uncomfortable science. It's just so much easier to say the 17 year old is attractive, even if they deliberately mislabeled them.
And go ahead and call it groomer logic if you want. Trump is too normal wanting women his daughters age.
It's trying to be adaptive but failing. Society grows up a lot later and marriage off the farm at 14 is no longer common place, but I think we're partly kidding ourselves that it's a naturally coded law and we're really different than 100 years ago sex-wise.
And that there's so many people that want Larry Flint's Barely Legal (Brainchild of Gail Harris) that says we are fighting a lust within. And trying to pretend we are these special divine creatures that wouldn't rather be deadly sinners. Just face the natural beast of wants and desire already.
After all, it was normal in 1887 for a 14 year old girl to be force married to a 28 year old man and immediately start shooting out children.
Then social norms said, Okay, so we don't need to marry girls off at 14 or 15 anymore, we have high school until 18 now, so let's move maturity back to the end of that, and expect the way we have always done it to go away and not end up a bunch of
men people screwing the barely legal. And sometimes not.
I think we are still fighting a biological tendency that has only been important 0.03% (100 years) of 300,000 years of human history.
And if we are gonna roll back the clock on human culture, could we shoot for the pre-temperance era, because I too would kinda like a prostitute and to try opium without going to Thailand. Just being honest. I have enough self-temperance.