Something that I don’t think many people want to admit is that you’re pretty much the same person throughout your life. And that means that the girls you thought were attractive when you were sixteen — that is, other sixteen year olds — are probably still attractive to you in your later years of life. So even when you’re forty, sixteen year olds are still probably going to be attractive to you. They might not be appealing because of their immature personality or your awareness of the age difference, but their physical form will still get the blood flowing.

It’s really not a very controversial thought when you get right down to it, but there is still a level of silent disgust both in relationships beyond some arbitrary age difference and in the awareness of the attractiveness of younger girls. Obviously, most of the latter stems from our cultures growing obsession with the minute fears our news media publicize and glamourize for the sake of ratings. We see stories of pedophiles and rapists and though they are depraved and depressing realities of the world, they are the exception to the rule.

Not every guy who is aware that your sixteen year old daughter — or even your thirteen or fourteen year old daughter; everyone matures at a different rate — is a smoking hot babe is a pedophile or rapist in waiting.