@Hikari_Owari @Sleepii
But there is a huge difference between sex between a man and a woman in this case.
For most of human history, if a man had multiple lovers, he was praised or it was considered normal. But if a woman was raped, she was considered "used goods". So men had more power in human history for the vast majority of the time. We are talking about tens of thousands of years of human history.
Also, females are the ones that get pregnant, not men.
Finally, when these problems happen, it should be noted that females are the ones that often feel the most pity and sorrow for the person raped. Why? Because females fear rape more then men do.
So from a man's perspective, it's the adult man got with a little girl, and the young boy got with the older lady. Note, in both cases, it's the male being considered the conqueror.
And remember, anime/manga geared towards men often have more harems than stories geared towards females. And there are more females protagonist being a part of harems in shoujo than there are male protagonist joining a reverse harem....
These show a clear difference in the very mentality towards males and females.
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Long Story Short, we are not judging based on age but position. When most men are reading this novel, it's about their own wet dreams as kids. THEY THEMSELVES being with the sexy older ladies of their dreams.
Plus, we are a more male dominated society. So we put ourselves in the position of the men. So they see themselves put in the position of the male molester or the male child.
Disgust that a man would touch a young girl because they would be disgusted at the idea of touching a young girl.
Proud of the boy who got to touch the older girl, because they themselves would have wished to have been in that situation
Longer story shorter: I (and many other men) replace the males with ourselves and judge if we ourselves would want to be in that situation or not...