It isn’t and wasn’t legal, which is why Ghislaine Maxwell is in prison for trafficking and abusing minor girls. Children.
While consent is 16 or 17 in many places —that only applies in consensual, non-exploitative relationships. Not in situation where there’s money, coercion, grooming, or a power imbalance.
Legally, any minor involved in commercial sex is considered a trafficking victim. Consent isn’t valid when a teenager is being recruited, paid, pressured, or controlled by adults (which is exactly what happened to survivors and victims in the Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking case and the Epstein case.)
So the issue isn’t just the age of the girls.
It’s about coercion and exploitation. That’s why language matters: calling them “teen prostitutes” shifts blame onto kids instead of the adults who abused them.
While consent is 16 or 17 in many places —that only applies in consensual, non-exploitative relationships. Not in situation where there’s money, coercion, grooming, or a power imbalance.
Legally, any minor involved in commercial sex is considered a trafficking victim. Consent isn’t valid when a teenager is being recruited, paid, pressured, or controlled by adults (which is exactly what happened to survivors and victims in the Ghislaine Maxwell trafficking case and the Epstein case.)
So the issue isn’t just the age of the girls.
It’s about coercion and exploitation. That’s why language matters: calling them “teen prostitutes” shifts blame onto kids instead of the adults who abused them.
https://x.com/AmberWoods100/status/1986089086600581425
Note the language used: “the victims were as young as 14 years old when they were groomed and abused by Maxwell and Epstein.” 
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