SumRando on Nostr: I am glad you can so easily tell the difference between a 15 year old and a 16 year ...
I am glad you can so easily tell the difference between a 15 year old and a 16 year old and with such certainty that you can find the idea of being attracted to a 15 year old "categorically disgusting."
In my experience, it is damn difficult to guesstimate age after 13 or so. Some 18 year olds through early to mid 20s look way younger, while some 14-15 year olds look much older.
You are likely more disgusted by the idea of being attracted to a 15 year old than by actual 15 year olds. Put a more well-endowed 15 year old and a less well endowed 18 year old next to each other clad in their bikinis for a swim, without telling you which is which, and you'll find your dick betrays your sensibilities.
The ability or inability to express informed consent is more of an indictment of our culture prolonging childhood into adolescence and adolescence into mid to late 20s, in my opinion. There is no reason, other than avoiding giving an individual the information because they are "too young" that a young teen can't give informed consent, assuming some form of coercion didn't take place.
Most cultures in history have considered adulthood to begin sometime between 12 and 15 years of age. It has only been in the last couple centuries that sensibilities around this have changed. Interestingly, it has coincided with having public school available for all young people up through... wait for it... age 18. The standardization of K-12 education played a major role in society's perception that young people are still "children" until age 18, in my opinion.
In my experience, it is damn difficult to guesstimate age after 13 or so. Some 18 year olds through early to mid 20s look way younger, while some 14-15 year olds look much older.
You are likely more disgusted by the idea of being attracted to a 15 year old than by actual 15 year olds. Put a more well-endowed 15 year old and a less well endowed 18 year old next to each other clad in their bikinis for a swim, without telling you which is which, and you'll find your dick betrays your sensibilities.
The ability or inability to express informed consent is more of an indictment of our culture prolonging childhood into adolescence and adolescence into mid to late 20s, in my opinion. There is no reason, other than avoiding giving an individual the information because they are "too young" that a young teen can't give informed consent, assuming some form of coercion didn't take place.
Most cultures in history have considered adulthood to begin sometime between 12 and 15 years of age. It has only been in the last couple centuries that sensibilities around this have changed. Interestingly, it has coincided with having public school available for all young people up through... wait for it... age 18. The standardization of K-12 education played a major role in society's perception that young people are still "children" until age 18, in my opinion.