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Originally Posted by mbovenka
True, no legal issues there. However, the emotional double standard exists here as well:
30 year old man & 16 year old girl -> Eeuw, castrate the nasty pedo!
30 year old woman & 16 year old boy -> Damn, lucky b*st*rd!
OK, a bit over the top, but you get the idea.
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I don't think that's the case. Consider the cases where a teacher has sex with a student. When it's a male teacher and a female student, people shrug it off. Whatever disciplinary or legal consequences there are take place without it much interest paid beyond the local area. When it's a female teacher and a male student, that's different. Then it's a national media feeding frenzy. Older man with a younger woman is taken from granted, but an older woman with a younger man is still considered very strange.