Common Sense

We see teens employed at the exact same jobs as other adults, doing the exact same work for the exact same pay, and paying the exact same taxes, driving the same cars on the same roads.

16 year olds have beards, and breasts, they are 100% completely adult in every way.

Gens Y and Z are against kink-shaming and very accepting of all sorts of weird perversions.

At the same time they are extremely sex-negative. They consider any hint of "power dynamics" an act of violence. They think age-gaps are terrible and traumatizing too (despite giant piles of evidence to the contrary).

In the 1980s the paradigm was different.

Teenager and Young Adult were synonyms at that time.

Feminists got pissed off if you called any post-pubescent female a "girl"

They said calling teens children is egregious infantilization.

They were right.

There is not a shred of scientific evidence for the existence of ephebophilia, but everyone acts like it's real.

Creativity is about new ideas. Being conservative is opposing new ideas. Any creative field will be dominated by non-conservative people. That's why lefties wield power in Hollywood. They must have creative free-thinkers or the art promptly dies.

Just like the human body the human brain changes quickly during puberty then slowly for the rest of your life. There is no magical point of "fully matured". That's a garbage paradigm.

Looking for it creates lots of dumb clickbait that people love to parrot tho'

Do people really believe that 20 year olds are children and no one ever in the entire history of the world noticed this? and the only people who ever got it right are in the USA in the last 20 years?

That is just astoundingly ridiculous.

A: I don't think 15-year-olds should be having sex.

B: The law doesn't say who should or shouldn't have sex. It says who gets incarcerated for having sex. So the question isn't who should have sex. The question is who should be imprisoned for having sex.