Whether 52 or 61, going after 19 year old girls is 99.9% creepy as fuck. The fact that people think some legal term line of 18 is anything but a legal tool is amazing. The fact that someone even implied the 19 year old was the predator is downright sick in the head. It's like people here were never 18 or 19. We are still kids, extremely naive, vulnerable, and all those things - a single birthday with a legal meaning doesn't change that. That's why we say things like 'they send kids to war' meaning 18/19/20 year olds. Ok you are legally an adult. Those other things aren't changed about still basically being a kid, naive and vulnerable. Grown men seeking out girls that young is creepy and predatory.
For those that seem to not get it, by recognizing this it does not mean you are against people with big age differences dating or being together. 70 year old guy with 28 year old, whatever. This is NOT that. This is specifically about older men with women just are still in their teens or just out of their teens. We gain a lot of knowledge over the years, things that mostly innocent, relatively speaking, doe eyed kids have no clue about. Things that adults can easily exploit. I'm amazed some men on here are so fucking driven by their own horny selves who probably get off on teen porn, think this is totally cool.
This to me just seems like basic decent knowledge. I go out and when I pass the areas where it's just bars with kids that are either just legal to drink or using fake ID's and are in their late teens, it feels disgusting to look at a girl and think about trying to be with them. I'm in my late forties. It's gross. The fact that this would feel normal to other people is nasty to me.
I'm sure there may be a very rare exception here or there but when it's something a guy that much older does on the regular, like Kiedis does, and others, there is no rare exception, the guy is just a predatory creep.
I am no prude. I have played in the swinging scene with married and partnered folks. I have a lot of sexual partners in my past. I am open to numerous kinks. I dated a couple girls who were 10-12 years younger than me, but they were both at least 30. i guess I am naive in that I can't believe people are still this fucked in the head about this, especially people I thought were relatively progressive.