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I've always considered statutory rape to be the jaywalking of sex crimes! ;) Kidding, but I do think that we underestimate the mental capacity of someone who is, say, 16 or 17. That age is old enough to make a non-coerced decision. Coercion is wrong at any age, but at some point a kid is a young adult; most places we say 18, but that's not some magical number. Its a completely arbitrary consensus that we've collectively decided upon.