If a man is good looking enough, is it okay if he sleeps with a minor?

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52. O.K., so let's go the social conditioning route.

Isn't your aversion to age difference between sexual partners equally social conditioning? I mean we've seen different ages all throughout history until really very recently. Nature has different age partners all the time. So the same line of argument actually works against you. If gender differences aren't really biological, and our aversions are only socially conditioned, then age works the same way.

And, let's go meta here, isn't the argument for social conditioning really just socially conditioned? Isn't it just the residual of time? or is there something biologically in us that would make us desire to seek social conditioning? You can see how regressive your position is. I'm simply implying that maybe it stops somewhere. I'm think maybe, just maybe, male and female hormones and the effects those hormones have on our thinking may come into play. But maybe when my daughters all menstruate at the same time, and they're all a bit on edge (in different degrees), well, that's just our household conditioning.

No, I think I'm going to go stick with some biological differences. Is there social conditioning? Of course: that's why we have ages for marriage, statutory rape, etc. If a 35 year-old man tried to marry a 16 year-old girl today, well, there'd be howls. But that wasn't true even a 100 years ago. So, yeah, social conditioning is there. Maybe just not as strong as you think.

Or I may be wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.

Thanks, seabeyond. I'll let you have the last word. I promise.