YouTuber Idiocy Regarding Age Of Consent Laws - revised

Max Karson's take on the age of consent is atrocious.Show more

Bad laws destroy lives. It is possible to make good laws. We should take a long hard look at how bad our status quo is. We can stop grinding good people into the dirt, but we have to get past Puritan hysteria. We can emulate countries that take a reasonable approach. We can use evidence-based arguments, assess real harm, and stop creating problems where none need to exist.

Thanks to Thaddeus Russell for being a voice of reason in this bizarre interaction.

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