I can't convince you.
You are asking me to convince you? That's rich. If a person refusing to believe or be convinced, that's them.
Maybe if you follow the cases, and maybe if you have experience in dealing with said issues, then you may come around.
Just like you can't convince me that a 37 yr old married teacher with one kid would risk her marriage and profession to be with a 17 yr old, doesn't not have deep seated issues. One of them would be her marriage.
Well, you're making sweeping statements about people you
a) don't know
b) situations you weren't involved in
and your only basis for it is because of a handful of cases the media trumped up
I mean, that's your right and everything but
it makes you look pretty uneducated on how human emotions work
they don't click on or off because of an age difference
and the cliche about control just shows you've never dated anyone anyone much older than you