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this post was submitted on 04 Aug 2026
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Eh, I was young but when I was 23 I knew what I was doing when it came to sex. I hooked up with older people and knew what I was getting into.
30 year old dudes hitting on 19 year olds are fucking creeps though.
There's also a sea of difference between making mistakes and dating the wrong people, and being predated upon. Saying "people in their 20s should not date older people because they're children" does nothing to address the issue that could be better solved by teaching people to recognize uneven power dynamics relationships, because those can exist even between people of the same age. Anything else is Puritan generalization.
People jump to calling things puritanical but I don't think the concern here represents puritanical values at all, which are more inclined to view very young women as effectively a prime commodity for marriage arrangements or whatever.
Sexually sure I think 23 is not in the noncezone but dating a person going through the reckoning that is the early 20s while I’m past that sounds so exhausting.
(I don’t know what I’m talking about I’ve never seriously dated anyone more than a year younger/older than me)