Addendum
I haven’t met a whole lot of 16 year olds who really knew how to say “no” (much less what they were getting into, the risks, etc.) Is better for the young lady not to say “no” to the 18 or 19yr old than someone 20yr old or greater? She is still being made merchandise of, just with a lesser dinner and a baby daddy who can’t pay once he knocks her up.
When I was 16, I had sex with adult men. I look back on it and think, “Eww, what the hell were they thinking?”, but I don’t feel I was at all coerced or forced or even manipulated into it. In fact, I was usually the seductress/instigator. Preach it sister! The truth MOST do not want to know about or admit is possible. It all comes down to looking at it biologically or ideologically.
Clearly, a grown man should know better, but I’d never in a million years call my consensual sex a form of rape. Bad judgment? Yes. Is that worth jail time? I don’t know, but my gut says no. Should know better here in the US where we are still ass backwards on sex. I many other parts of the world the ”Men should know better” would be laughable. If you took the entire planet and averaged the age of consent, it would average 15.5 yrs. I guess most of the world would be pervs who didn’t know better because they don’t do it the “American Way?” Bad judgment in sex is made at every age not just those 18yr and under.