They have studied age-gap relationships. Thoroughly. Guess what they found.

The definitive study of age-gap relationships was done by University of Massachusetts researchers Denise A. Hines and David Finkelhor

It is a thorough and comprehensive meta study.

They found nothing alarming about the fact that teens sometimes have sex partners 10 years older than themselves.

full text: https://www.unh.edu/ccrc/sites/default/files/media/2022-03/statutory-sex-crime-relationships-between-juveniles-and-adults-a-review-of-social-scientific-research.pdf