While I was surfing around on YouTube the other day, I stumbled across a video on a channel named "The Uncomfortable Truth With Tara." The video was about the statutory-rape laws mainly in the United States. The name of the show was "Deep Dive."
The male narrator on this same show never provided his name. However, the woman's name was Tara. At first, they both introduced their narratives as though it was going to be impartial. However, I was eventually able to tell that they were promoting the American statutory-rape laws as being the best ones in the world. Well, they're not.
Anyhow, below is this same video. It won't take you very long for you to realize that Tara and the nameless male narrator are really wolves in sheep's clothing. Their entire podcast sounds as though it is scripted, and their voices sound phony. YouTuber 
What Initially Appeared To Offer Insight Into American Statutory-Rape Laws Turned Out To Be A Preachy Lecture About Teenagers In Age-Gap Relationships
The nameless male narrator and Tara try to mislead their audience that they're showing both sides of the controversial issue of statutory-rape laws, but anyone can see that they really set out to be on the winning side rather than on the side of truth. Do not allow yourself to be fooled. These two people do not care about the greater good.
1. Puritanical Propaganda Disguised As Words Of Wisdom
For the purposes of this article here of mine, I'm going to refer to the nameless male narrator as Josh. Josh brings up a faulty analogy of animal versus humans regarding age-gap relationships.
The question that Josh and Tara should be asking is what makes American teenage minors so different from Portuguese, Hungarian, Italian, French, Danish, German, Austrian, and Bulgarian teenage minors. The European nations where these teenage minors reside have statutory ages of consent at 14 or 15 years old, and none of them are losing their minds from having older sex partners.
In the podcast above, the minute that Tara brings up the subject of power dynamics and power imbalances, you know immediately that her podcast is a sham. The main reason that relationships with power imbalances exist is because of hypergamy rather than sexual predation.
Tara speaks frequently about power imbalances throughout the podcast, but she never denounces hypergamy. That becomes a major flaw in her arguments.
Even if a 14-year-old girl has a 23-year-old boyfriend and their relationship has a power imbalance, it doesn't necessarily mean that the young girl will get hurt in the relationship. It doesn't make jail or prison an ideal place for the boyfriend. Tara presents a lame argument to support her position regarding American statutory-rape laws.
Once Josh brings up the "human prefrontal cortex" argument to support his draconian position regarding American statutory-rape laws, you know immediately that his narrative is nothing more than a sermon meant to drag people into his make-believe world of age-appropriate perfection and wholesome purity. His argument relies on junk science.
At the end of the day, this same argument from Josh doesn't justify incarcerating a young man for falling in love with a middle-school or high-school girl who so happens to be on the opposite side of the legal age line from him.
Tara is correct in her assertion about cultural variations regarding what is an age-appropriate relationship for a teenage minor. In many nations with lower statutory ages of consent, their societies are not enamored with pushing prison life on as many young adult men as possible.
Where Tara gets her same assertion wrong is when she insists that there could still be harm going on in age-gap relationships involving teenage minors in cultures where they are openly accepted. It's quite the opposite. When no harm is happening at all in an age-gap relationship involving a teenage minor, the American statutory-rape laws simply don't care one way or the other; and the application of strict liability to these same laws quickly becomes a human-rights violation.
It is interesting that Josh and Tara claim that experts contend that age-gap relationships involving minors usually have bad outcomes, because neither one of them name any such experts. Therefore, you have to question whether they're pulling these so-called deductions off the top of their heads.
Also, it could be social pressures causing problems for these age-gap relationships involving teenage minors rather than the older partners themselves. Tara does explore this same possibility, but she offers no real insight to it. She and Josh talk about research on the topic, but they don't name people or institutions that have supposedly performed such research throughout most of their podcast.
These two fraudsters fail to mention anything about the fact that nations that have lower statutory ages of consent actually have lower rates of teenage pregnancy. So are we to believe that Lori Mattix and other groupies like her back in the late 1960s and early 1970s were victims of sexual exploitation? It's not as though these women are all complaining about it.
Even though Josh and Tara do explore some of the opinions in opposition to theirs, they never really take a bird's-eye view of the topic at hand. So, they're not fooling me.
I do, however, commend Josh and Tara for acknowledging that adult partners with teenage partners who do not yet vote don't always exploit power imbalances. Then again, because there are more and more adult men who have never had a girlfriend in their life by the age of 25, those power imbalances likely don't even exist in most age-gap relationships involving teenage minors.
If you cling to the belief that men over 25 years of age who fit this same description of being male spinsters are mentally challenged, then we are delving into the debate over whether the mentally ill have the right to their happiness. Everything cannot be all for the prosperity and romantic success of the high-school hunk and the glittering prom king.
Once Josh and Tara begin to run their mouths about predators, you know they're steering their audience to a sermon about how wonderful the statutory-rape laws are in the United States. They don't slip under my radar.
The question of developmental mismatches between teenage girls and adult men is a weak argument on the part of Josh and Tara, because inexperience with romance has placed many adult men at the same developmental level as adolescent girls. Tara generalizes too much.
Eventually, Tara does mention about research from the World Health Organization ("WHO") regarding the importance of sex education. I do not disagree with her on that point.
The elephant in the room here is that Josh believes in keeping the status quo with the American statutory-rape laws. My response to his school of thought is that the only way that 18 years old could ever work as a fair and just statutory age of consent would be if the following safeguards were put in place:
(a) "statutory rape" was downgraded from a strict-liability offense to an intent offense;
(b) prosecutors would have the burden of proving harm to the alleged victim;
(c) any alleged victim 12 years of age or older would be given veto power in a statutory-rape case;
(d) any alleged victim 12 years of age or older would not be forced to testify in a statutory-rape trial against the defendant under the threat of contempt-of-court charges;
(e) prosecutors and police would be prohibited from accusing defendants of being pedophiles during court proceedings in a statutory-rape case unless the alleged victim was younger than 11 years old;
(f) if the alleged victim in the statutory-rape case is 12 years old or older and she is the defendant's first love, then the case should be dismissed altogether and the defendant should be acquitted of all charges;
(g) the criminal defense attorneys in statutory-rape cases should be allowed to instruct juries about jury nullification.
These safeguards should also be put in place in state jurisdictions where the statutory age of consent is 16 and 17 years old. These same safeguards should never be mistaken as loopholes in the law.
Josh stresses that he believes that a 15-year-old girl, for example, is cognitively vulnerable to manipulation. If that's the case, then society and the law need to go harsher on deadbeat teenage fathers and violent underage rapists than they currently do. Society and the law also need to take into consideration an older partner's lack of romantic experience with the opposite gender as a mitigating factor in a statutory-rape case.
Josh and Tara absolutely love the word "normal." However, "normal" can be toxic. Watch the video below.
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In the podcast above, Tara states that she believes that lowering the statutory age of consent here in the land of milk and honey is incredibly dangerous. Well, if she's talking about lowering it to 8 years old being incredibly dangerous, then she won't get any argument from me. However, many nations do perfectly fine with statutory ages of consent between 12 and 15 years old. In fact, they do better than the United States.
In figurative words, it appears to me that Josh and Tara wish to raise the statutory age of consent to 35 years old in every state jurisdiction of the United States. My response is that mass imprisonment benefits nobody. Even the prison-industrial complex loses in the end, because it's a recipe for the collapse of an entire nation.
2. The Longstanding Attraction Of Adult Men To Teenage Girls In The American Culture
Elected officials can change the laws here in the United States to put legal wedges between adult men and teenage girls, but they cannot change the natural attraction that adult men feel toward teenage girls. All you have to do is watch one of the videos of The Weiss Life channel on YouTube, and you'll see how beautiful Gwyneth, Gracelynn, and Gabrielle are. Even Gretchen is beginning to look like a lady creature in the video below.
The video below is from a year ago. Gwyneth was 14 years old then. Gracelynn was 15 years old. Gabrielle was 19 years old. Gretchen was a preteen. Three of these girls are not yet of age in the video below, yet it doesn't mean that only teenage boys find them to be irresistible.
The Adolescent Girls From The Weiss Life Channel On YouTube Are Genetically Perfect In So Many Ways
I wouldn't doubt that older men have asked each of these girls out on dates. I'm sure their lives are not like reruns of Full House. Gemma is the only daughter among them who is too young to grab the attention of your average adult man. No grown man should even be thinking about having any kind of adult interest in her.
3. Final Thoughts
Setting the statutory age of consent at 18 mainly benefits predatory prosecutors and despotic police officers. Harsh statutory-rape laws could be what is causing the spike in cop killers here in the United States. American statutory-rape laws are anything but fair.
Before buying into all the puritanical propaganda that Josh and Tara spew in their podcast, my advice to you is for you to read the online publication titled The Paradox of Statutory Rape by Russell L. Christopher and Kathryn Hope Christopher from beginning to end. Then you'll realize that the narrative that Josh and Tara delivers in their podcast amounts to nothing more than misleading propaganda.
In an online mental health forum, a woman named gwenylis mentored a 14-year-old girl who was interested in a 24-year-old man. Gwenylis set down rules for the 24-year-old man upon his courting the 14-year-old girl. He had honorable intentions for the girl, and he respected them inasmuch as he was truly in love with her.
To make a long story short, this 24-year-old man married the 14-year-old girl eight years later. He paid to put her through college. He proved himself to others who were skeptical that such a relationship could ever work, but it did.
Unfortunately, American society has a propensity to continue to pass judgment on men like these; whereas if a 15-year-old boy gets a 13- or 14-year-old girl pregnant and then bails on her, somehow society crowns him as another red-blooded American teenage boy and the law does nothing about his reprehensible actions against the young girl.
Tara and Josh's podcast do nothing to stop this hypocrisy in the American culture. The status quo with our statutory-rape laws has been failing us for a very long time, and it's time that we all do something to reform our statutory-rape laws for the better instead of weaponizing them to ruin the lives of teenage girls and young adult men.
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