23 year old dating 18 year old in high school?

@quitwhendone You’re talkin about having sex.

@SimplyTracie Is that a question?

@quitwhendone You comment is about having consensual sex. Yes?

@SimplyTracie Well, yes, but you have to assume that when talking about dating. Actually, one of the biggest reasons for older people not dating younger people is that the younger person is not mature enought to deal with an older person. And thus the older person can take advantage of the younger person emotionally.

@quitwhendone Maybe. Maybe he really only just wants to date an 18 year old.

@SimplyTracie What do you mean? DO you mean he has a sort of fetish for teenage girls?

@quitwhendone I wouldn’t call it a fetish. He happens to wanna date an 18 year old and is curious to know what everyone thinks.

@SimplyTracie Oh, I didn't realize it was him. I thought it was hypothetical. So what do YOU think, Tracie?

@quitwhendone I’m assuming it’s him. It might be just a hypothetical question.

I think a 23 year old man shouldn’t be dating a high school student. Just wait till she graduates. Just my personal opinion. Don’t hate.

@SimplyTracie So as soon as she graduates, she's fair game?

Does it matter if she is 18 or even 19 years old and in high school? And does it matter if it's an older male and a high school female or an older female and a high school male?

@quitwhendone Nope. Any 23 year old dating a high school student is cringe worthy.

@SimplyTracie When I was in Junior High School, my English teacher was dating one of the HS senior girls. He was probably 23. She would have been 18.

@quitwhendone It’s a personal thing for me. I just don’t agree with it. But I’m sure teachers do bang some of their students.

You do any of your teachers in high school? 🤭

@SimplyTracie Oh, I am not saying I was ok with it. I thought it was weird and I had trouble processing it but I was 11 or 12 at the time. They were 18 and 23. I had no idea what it was like to be that mature so I had no clue. But both of them seemed like pretty good people. I dunno how I feel about it, to be honest. Some 18-year-olds are mature, others are not. I have a 19-year-old niece who may as well be 15. She isn't very mature at all. But I've known 18 and 19-year-olds who were more mature and worldly than I was when I was 23.

I think part of the issue is that adults don't want to admit that an 18-year-old girl (or boy...I should say, young woman and young man) is losing the innocence of their childhood. Adults (especially the parents involved) want to hold on to those precious childhood and teen years for longer than the actual years.

I know that when I was 18, I knew many older women I would gladly have been with if I had the chance. And I may have been out of my league but I would have done it and learned from the experience. I would have looked at it as a learning experience, not an older person preying on me.

@quitwhendone I Gotcha.