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Until a few years ago, the age of consent in my country was 14. There weren't just 13 and 14 year olds with 19 or 20 year old boyfriends, even 14 and 25-27 was a pretty common combo. Guy I went to middle school with was such an immature dumbass, he HAD to work 14 year olds to get laid at 19. Because a 15 year old would see through him already. Think he's changed now, but of course he had to father a child with a 15 year old first.
But this isn't the 80s or 90s. No, I grew up in the '00s and '10s. This is my experience with my peers in late 00s and even early 10s.
I don't know any teenagers anymore, but there's a podcast about sex and standup comedy (they wanna talk about standup comedy since they're both comedians, but since they named it "pussy eaters", they only get emails about sex) and holy hell, one girl out of every 4 seems hell-bent on talking about how they lost their virginity as a teenager to an older guy. Another girl out of every four is talking about how she either got raped or almost got raped (as an adult usually, not that it makes things much better). They just stopped reading emails from their listeners.