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I don’t think we’re getting more incidents. I think we’re getting more disclosures. Back in the day, students were more like adults in miniature - they understood the need for discretion. Today, students have been infantilized - they talk about *everything*, like babies who have recently learned how.

There’s another factor - it wasn’t such a big taboo in the past, so it was probably rarely chased down and prosecuted. The age of consent was once a way to ensure that kids acquired enough book knowledge to function well in the workplace. It is has now become a kind of religious taboo. Except no religion actually has such a taboo. The traditional age of consent (marriage) was puberty. In Judaism, for instance, the age of consent (marriage) pretty much begins with a bar/bat mitzvah, at the ages of 13 and 12 for boys and girls respectively.

Roy Moore dated teenagers when he was in his 30’s. It never came up in earlier political campaigns because it was never thought to be a big deal. There are lots of things that are radioactive today that were not thought remarkable decades ago.

......”There are lots of things that are radioactive today that were not thought remarkable decades ago”.....

That’s a great point. There were always ‘bullies’ in school but the teachers didn’t think nothing about putting them up against the lockers to show them the fear of God and did just that. No parents came into school to whine about how they’re ‘baby’ was abused by a teacher. It was perfectly normal.

Same with teacher/student relationships. Teachers and students all knew who they were as well. Guys would boast about it (a guy thing)and most of the girls looked at the female teacher as rather slutty..if a guy teacher he was just a stud! and the female student slutty or looking for a sugar daddy.

Roy Moore dated teenagers when he was in his 30’s. It never came up in earlier political campaigns because it was never thought to be a big deal.

Not that long ago many men spent their early years making something of themselves before marriage. Back then a large family was the norm and trying to marry a 30 year old woman then having four to six children was not going to work as it was more dangerous for a 37 year old woman to be pregnant. That meant the 30 year old men had to look for a younger woman in her late teens and those women looked at older men as steady providers for their children.

Nowadays it has been drummed into everybody that more than two children is terrible and having a spouse that is near your own age the only decent thing to do.