Board Thread:The Flash discussions/@comment-9346948-20171206012231/@comment-27700324-20171214012323

SeanWheeler wrote:

Xandermcc wrote: 1. It is statutory rape because even if a child agrees with it. They are too young to understand things like sex at that time and not ready for things like pregnancy at that age. Making it not willing when the child understands none of it.

2. Them looking similar to adults makes no difference and there is no loop holes from that.

3. Teenagers are at similar ages and both don't really understand sex at that point in time. Making it less like one person taking advantage of another's lack of knowledge and more two people falling in love and working things out as they go along.

4. Riverdale casted adults to play the teenagers on Riverdale. Seriously, look up the age of the cast before you call out child pornography. There has never been a case where they got real teens to be in a sex scene on a TV show. Riverdale may have casted adults, but Archie and Veronica are canonically teenagers. When sex is depicted between teenagers in a cartoon, comics, or video game, is that considered wrong? If so, then character ages should matter more than the actor's age. The characters themselves have to be at least 18 to be sexualized. The information about them being High School sophomores put them between the ages of 15 and 16. KJ Apa may be 20 and Camila Mendes may be 24, but Archie and Veronica are still underaged in-universe. That was why Archie's relationship with Geraldine Grundy was a big no-no. So? Just because characters are canonically teens doesn't make filming adults pretending to be teens child pornography. That is just acting. You aren't sexualizing teenagers when they aren't teenagers. However the Miss Grundy situation was bad in canon. It isn't in real life due to the actors being the same age in the real world.