Talk:Adam Taurus/@comment-26638617-20190107063544/@comment-4010415-20190108025147

@Bajarias A 5-year age gap isn't unsettling when you're older, like a 30-year-old with a 35-year-old, for example, but it is rather unsettling when one of them is a child and the other is almost an adult.

A 17-year-old getting with a 12-year-old is unsettling because the 17-year-old is in high school, a single year away from being an adult, and should be focusing on others who have reached a similar level of physical maturity. Meanwhile, the 12-year-old is still prepubescent or has only just entered pubescence, is in middle school, and is, overall, still a child. It's not far off from an 18-year-old expressing such interest in a 12- or 11-year-old.

When the interest is expressed at that age, it's pedophilic. The person in their late teens who is on the verge of or has reached adulthood is looking at a child who still has the mental developmental maturity of a child and thinking of them in a romantic and/or sexual way. It doesn't matter if the child is mature for their age, the fact is that their brain itself has not finished maturing and is still at its late childhood stage. In the childhood and teenage stages, their mind is actually incapable of certain things because those parts have not finished developing yet, and thus, an adult is not a suitable romantic or sexual partner for them.