Said this about Russell Brand earlier this year, and feel even more strongly about it now about the David Walliams allegations: there should be a staggered age of consent.
Someone in their thirties has no business having sex with a teenager, even if they’re ‘legal’!
https://x.com/AyoCaesar/status/2120193233867112868?a=rQYlWdoPP24DUy8NLOE&s=19
This approach would have deprived me of my nephew and niece, whose parents met when my sister was 19 and my future brother-in-law was 31. There was never anything remotely icky about it. He wanted nothing but a committed relationship from the start and proposed within a couple of years.
People met, fell in love, formed a family, and had children. Everybody should be so lucky. There are no similarities between this wholesome, normal story and whatever Brand and his accusers engaged in. And everybody knows this. We all instinctively find the activities of the Cornell Seven and Jane Doe disgusting, even though they are all the same age. It’s not the age difference, but the activity that is repellent.
It’s not the age difference, but the nature of the relationship that bothers people, but we have been conditioned to be utterly unable to say this. Once you allow yourself to admit that consensual doesn’t mean good, moral, or acceptable, everything becomes much clearer. And we do admit it in every other sort of relationship except for the sexual. It’s only in the realm of sex that we twist ourselves into pretzels, trying to fit our very normal and good moral outrage into the Procrustean bed of consent.
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