Just dipping back in on the whole 16 year old thing....
Would I want my 16 yr old daughter dating a 30 year old? Of course not because we all know what men are like. I remember my mum stopping and confronting a guy on the street who was looking at my sister, 'what are you looking at? She's 11 years old, you freak'. This stuff happens.
Hell, even in my dad's generation it was socially acceptable to be attracted to school girls. These are arbitrary shifting lines in the sand, in some cultures girls are married off very young when, to us, they are literally children.
What is societally acceptable varied a lot and over time. Especially relevant in a historical context.
I would hope that a 30 year old man would want to 'go out' with someone with more substance than a 16 year old but that's not always the case. Brand, like many men, is visually driven and as an addictive type personality, is looking for that dopamine hit. A pretty young woman will fire up all those receptors in the brain and probably the reason for the 'black eyes' (pupils dilate when physiologically aroused, this is different from the other type of 'aroused')
As I said in a previous post, personally, I'd like the law to be more nuanced, it should be illegal to sleep with someone under 18 if you're over 18. 16-18 get their own category.
All that said, Russell approached a girl "of legal age" on the street and started a consensual relationship with her that she was happy to be a part of. Aside from the rough bedroom incident (again not illegal) I didn't hear much else that could be prosecuted.
It raises the point at least about what kind of person is interested in women much younger than themselves and gives us a chance to discuss whether current legislature should be amended as views have obviously changed in the last 30 years.
Would I want my 16 yr old daughter dating a 30 year old? Of course not because we all know what men are like. I remember my mum stopping and confronting a guy on the street who was looking at my sister, 'what are you looking at? She's 11 years old, you freak'. This stuff happens.
Hell, even in my dad's generation it was socially acceptable to be attracted to school girls. These are arbitrary shifting lines in the sand, in some cultures girls are married off very young when, to us, they are literally children.
What is societally acceptable varied a lot and over time. Especially relevant in a historical context.
I would hope that a 30 year old man would want to 'go out' with someone with more substance than a 16 year old but that's not always the case. Brand, like many men, is visually driven and as an addictive type personality, is looking for that dopamine hit. A pretty young woman will fire up all those receptors in the brain and probably the reason for the 'black eyes' (pupils dilate when physiologically aroused, this is different from the other type of 'aroused')
As I said in a previous post, personally, I'd like the law to be more nuanced, it should be illegal to sleep with someone under 18 if you're over 18. 16-18 get their own category.
All that said, Russell approached a girl "of legal age" on the street and started a consensual relationship with her that she was happy to be a part of. Aside from the rough bedroom incident (again not illegal) I didn't hear much else that could be prosecuted.
It raises the point at least about what kind of person is interested in women much younger than themselves and gives us a chance to discuss whether current legislature should be amended as views have obviously changed in the last 30 years.
