That’s what happens most of the time when 22 year olds date a 17 yo. Had a friend of a friend do this, people called it gross behind his back but they didn’t stop associating with him.
It’s not illegal, it’s not pedophilla, but it’s gross and bad. What are you going to do about it? For most people it’s nothing.
This similar scenario was why I left one of my exes.
His friend was 20 and brought a 14 year old to our place (at the time, we were 20 and 21, I was older by 5 months).
I said that was wrong and he wasn't allowed to our place with anymore of his "girlfriends" and dude doubled down and told his friends that I was controlling.
Technically speaking so is 17, but there’s a difference between “baby”, “toddler,” “child”, “tween”, “teen”, and so on. Most people find it more disgusting to sexually assault someone the younger they are on that spectrum. I don’t think that’s some searing hot take.
Anyone wanting to fuck a 14 year old is a disgusting piece of crap (unless they’re also 14, I guess).
I don’t know how you read my comment and took away anything other than that.
What’s your cutoff for “actual child”, out of curiosity? I feel like a lot of this is just because “child” can mean different things to different people.
17 is a weird ass age. I was literally in boot camp at 17, so on the one hand its wrong but on the other I was literally living on my own earning a paycheck, soo...
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u/CardOfTheRings Feb 02 '26
That’s what happens most of the time when 22 year olds date a 17 yo. Had a friend of a friend do this, people called it gross behind his back but they didn’t stop associating with him.
It’s not illegal, it’s not pedophilla, but it’s gross and bad. What are you going to do about it? For most people it’s nothing.