Originally Posted by hiwiseguy
[minor point: I think that since we are counting years, in fairness we should subtract the same amount from both people. That is to say, if the female is now 16 and the male is now 31, then, if we go back and make her 15, we make the male 30 . . and so on. (it's only one year, but still, if we make her 15 and him 31, you can claim 'my goodness he is over twice her age!' instead of, 'my goodness, he may be twice her age!']
So with that in mind, at least understand what you are doing conceptually. You've framed the matter merely as a problem about age differences. And then the assumption that 'sex between a person 16 and a person 31 must necessarily be exploitive' is imported -- merely by stating the age difference.
Then you attempt to cast doubt on anyone who might not agree, when you ask (irrelevantly) if I have a problem with the . . . abstraction you've created: 'all 16 year-old/31 year-old sexual relationships are exploitive' (are problematic). That must be the assumption if you are assuming there to be a problem based on age difference alone.
Your position appears to be that 'there Must be a problem due to the age differences, and yet, we have nothing from the OP regarding any sort of problem other than a possible legal one -- which she asked about.