Back in the 1980s, Samantha Fox made her debut as a nude model for The Sun, a trashy British tabloid, at just 16 years old. The headline read "Sam, 16, quits A-Levels for Ooh-Levels", and the article joked about her being kicked out of school for taking part in the photoshoot. There's no doubt that The Sun, which these days lynches adult men like Huw Edwards for flirting with 17-year-olds, groomed her into what could have been a catastrophic decision. The fact that it actually did work out for her matters little according to mainstream 'sex abuse' logic.

Back to 2026, someone recently sent me a link to an article in The Guardian about Gen Z's extreme prudism toward couples who are not entirely equal. Gen Z is a generation that both dominates social media and happens to be utterly hysterical about age gaps. Even an 18-year-old dating a 16-year-old is labeled a predator and a groomer, and so is a 25-year-old dating an 18-year-old. According to the article I was sent, the same apparently now applies to someone dating a junior co-worker, a person less wealthy, an individual less intelligent... the list is endless. In fact, it seems that to not be a 'groomer', you'd have to choose someone of the same level of intelligence, income level, and so on. How the hell is anyone going to find an 'acceptable' partner with such an exhausting list of prerequisites?

One example I found was that of a no-name vocalist accusing an older vocalist of 'grooming' her. He was supposedly a 'groomer' in part because of his age, and in part because... he was a more famous artist. What happened to the days of young women lining up to get banged on the bus by rock stars, with everyone going home happy?

In a sense, Gen Z has gone full circle on sexual liberation, squarely in the wrong direction. Is a person from a rich country a predator if he dates someone from a poor country? What about a person who dates an individual of a skin color that has been subjugated? Can a person with a disability never date a person without one, lest they become a victim of grooming? If this isn't sexual repression, I don't know what is! Even interracial dating is potentially back on the verboten list.

There's also an assumption that the older or 'more powerful' person always seeks out the relationship, pressuring or manipulating a 'weaker target'. But I think it can go both ways. Many women are drawn to power, and many boys are drawn to men out of curiosity. They do seek out relationships with sex in mind, to the contrary of the mantra. As I mentioned in a recent post, I have a YF who is extremely sexually curious, and has to be told not to instigate sex play for the sake of me not ending up in prison. Detractors will say he just thinks it's a joke, correctly noting that boys love to joke around like that... but in his case, I think not.

People really shouldn't need to have equal levels of power to be deemed capable of consenting to a sexual relationship, as if it is some wildly complex and precarious undertaking. What should matter is that both partners desire the contact and at least feel safe in saying no. Critics of this position will of course ask if my philosophy here applies to a 50-year-old with a 10-year-old, and yes, it most certainly does as long as the stated parameters are met. Ultimately, there is a risk of harm in any sexual relationship, as evidenced by the more recent Rind studies. To avoid all risk entirely, you'd need to ban sex altogether, which would be quite an absurd proposition! Of course, a lot of people are simply grossed out by who is having consensual sex, but that is irrelevant; those people need to get the fuck out of other people's bedrooms and drop the ridiculous pretense that it's all about 'protecting' the vulnerable.

Biological reality certainly hasn't changed since the 1980s, when even the most insane newspaper of all time published naked photos of 16-year-olds. Rather, America's prudism is leaking again, and creating a new culture of sexual repression via social media. The question is, why are people across the world falling for the bullshit, especially in an era when everyone rightfully hates the vile cancer that is America.