I don't think sex was specified.

These days older women are 'taking advantage of' young boys.....so.... times change, don't they?

Bernie wanted to lower it again, from 16 to 13.

Times were different in the past.......'maturity' vs age distinctions aside. A 16 year old girl who had to raise her own sisters from the dirt in 1920 was way different than the child-voiced immaturity we have in many of today's females.

Romeo and Juliet laws exist in Nevada also (relative ages), where an 18 year old could have consensual sex with a 15 yr old.

Degeneracy would depend on the circumstances. Was your great grandfather a degenerate at 24 when he married the 15 year old? I'm pretty sure everybody has plenty of examples in the family tree.

Man-hating is not the answer.

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