My FWB started a new dating account app just for casual sex/one night stands/casual sexting and set the age range as 18-35. They’re 26 years old.
Is it creepy/predatory to potentially have a one night stand/casual sex(ting) with someone as young as 18 at that age? I figured not since they’re not looking for anything long-term or romantic, but I’m on the spectrum so I’m really not good at assessing this kind of stuff in relationships.
Hot take: I find it weird how many people are like "the age of consent should be 18, but also 18 year olds aren't REALLY adults and it's creepy for people much older than 18 to try and have sex with them." I mean, if that's really how you feel shouldn't you advocate for the age on consent to be raised? I don't like this "it should be legal but everyone should privately think its creepy and judge people for doing it" approach to social morality, if something is bad make it illegal, if 18 year olds aren't really old enough to consent to have sex with people significantly older than them, the age of consent should be raised to 21 or 25 or whatever.
Personally yeah I don't really think people under 21 are really mature enough to consent to sex with people way older than them. IDK exactly where I'd put the cut off point, but it's def not cool past a certain age. However I do think once your 22 if you wanna fool around with some people older than you, well you're an adult that's your prerogative.
"if something is bad make it illegal" is an absolutely deranged opinion, not all social norms should be enforced by state violence. In this specific case, if the age of consent was upped to 21/25/whatever with some kinda Romeo and Juliet clause, it'd exclusively be used to go after gays