Perhaps you think a fifteen year old can sign a contract. Buy a house. Drive a big rig. Get drafted. Drink. Vote.
If not surely you realize that fifteen year old girls are vulnerable idiots (I can say that I was one) and that there is an age of consent for a reason. They can NOT evaluate the risks and rewards of sex with an adult. All the ramifications. They can’t.
Thus it is rape. Even if she was willing. I could convince a fifteen year old to do almost anything.
Very sensitive and historically ignorant of you. A 15 year old female is QUITE capable of wisdom, cunning, scheming, beguiling and everything else. A male can be played by them easily. 15 year old women made up for probably half the wives on the frontier.
Please quit pretending 15 year old females are helpless babes in the woods.
And I would bet the ladies here could make a very strong argument that the judgement and maturity of a 15 year old femal and a 22 year old male are not THAT different.