Until the early 1900's, it was perfectly acceptable in this country for a man over 18 years of age to have sex with a 10-12 year old (the age of consent laws on the books then went as low as 10 and as high as 12). I would go so far as to say that many of you in this very discussion have a grandfather or great-grand relative that married a "child", in today's context, while he was over 18 years old and started popping out kids with her likely before her 16th birthday.

After the turn of the century there was a shift where the consent laws were changed to 16-18, though some states still had their old laws intact. Further muddying this is the fact that some states have lower age of consent for marriage and when married the sexual age of consent doesn't apply.

Even after these limits were raised, the act of a grown man having sex with a 16-18 year old still didn't have the stigma it has today. Honestly it wasn't really until the 80's were society started to really frown on it.

So, contextually, many men in the US leading up to the 1920's would today be considered child predators whereas in their day the shit was just "normal".

It was "the 70's", shit was wild and what Bowie did wasn't unheard of of shocking in the least bit. In 2016 he would be in prison, raped, beaten, maybe murdered while in prison, and when (if) he got out he'd be a registered sex offender, scourge of society.

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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.