Is JustPearlyThings Right? [16 v 26]

In what is now not-so-recently a controversy, Pearl commented that men find 16 year old girls more attractive than 26 year old women. Is she right? Many people on all sides of the cultural spectrum went aghast as if she had declared the most offensive absurdity! And while I felt the instinctual yuck too, the more I dwelled on it, the more I found myself thinking that she is technically correct but society has warped us by attempting to wipe the reality of teenage truths away from modern minds.