Fun fact, in China the age of consent is 14. meaning every chink immigrant to the US was raised knowing its perfectly normal for 14 year olds to fuck and have relationships with adults, even teachers. Yet no one ever discusses that part of discourse, in general 90% of immigrants in the last half century are from places with an age of consent of 14, yet that doesn't come up in discussions. in general 1/4th of people on planet earth are born and raised in countries where the age of consent is 14 but because they don't speak english it just doesn't get talked about or discussed and isn't attacked by the usual busybodies.
The minimum age of consent in the Mexican state of Oaxaca is 12. If you have sex with someone 12 and up but below 18 in Oaxaca it is not illegal per se but it is still open to prosecution. If the person is 18 or older, it is legal (assuming it is consensual).
technically all sex is open to prosecution, its called rape laws. does that technically mean AoC is over 110 in the US?
beyond that before AoC laws people had their own personal feelings about when a girl was ripe. people fucking hated the father of Henry VII because he knocked up a 12 year old. they didn't give a fuck that they were married and it was legal.
In Romeo and Juliet they mention she's 14 and isn't excepted to have relations until she's 16 and Romeo is older. morality wise a lot of it has to do with culture, which is why niggers can start fucking and sucking in middle school and no one bats an eye, but it was considered controversial to talk about 18 year olds having sex in white people comedy films in the 80s and especially late 90s. like being 18 and a virgin was considered pretty normal, and that was during the height of the white teen pregnancy epidemic.
A big reason you're seeing more discourse now vs 20 years ago is because of immigration. Like in El Salvador most people don't even go to high school and just start having a job and family at 15, so they look at you like a weirdo if you call them pedos for not waiting until 19. And those same wetbacks immigrate to the US and refuse to learn the language or driving laws and people still freak the fuck out at them for not understanding American nuances towards teenage sexuality.
Sex, because of how damaging pedo accusations are, are a huge topic of discussion. but its just the most visible part of the "americanization iceburg" like people over in europe get attacked for thinking its normal for someone under the age of 21 to get drunk or smoke. while every white frenchman will tell you having wine and smoking at 14 is normal and you're a faggot for waiting until 21 to do that.
And not just the French, the asians too, there was a massive flamewar on reddit a decade ago because John Oliver made some segment talking about the dangers of smoking and it heavily went after asian countries for allowing teenagers to just smoke openly. up until vaping became trendy in the US in the last decade it was practically the biggest tell on a college campus if someone was smoking a cig that they weren't american
You have gen Z kids in england that lash out at their parents for not tipping 20% on a meal despite that not being part of their culture and i assure you every single person in this thread that whines about the AOC having to be 18 doesn't see a single thing wrong with it.
chemo and gore san also think its fucked up when people refuse to circumcize their boys. they're that obnoxiously moral