>At the time of the original trial I remember a bunch of the
>arguments at the time boiled down to ‘They were old enough
>to be having sex anyway’. A weird comparison basically too
>since he was popping at the time it was the same like a 20
>year old dude pulling up in a Pathfinder macking on the
>seniors in the parking lot. Except these are kids barely
>outta middle school and a dude deep in his mid-thirties!


like in the mid to early 90s and before it was REALLY common...
go back a generation or 2...and you would be shocked even more of full on relationships/marriages of those under 18 to adults

honestly...
in a weird sick twisted sorta way

RKelly kinda deaded that whole thing and made it more taboo...

I remember VIVIDLY when he married Aaliyah and nobody blinked (too hard) of an eye


and Step in the Name of Love came out