Talk:Ezra Fitzgerald/@comment-109.151.191.218-20120212150701/@comment-3575890-20120229002416

^^^^ No, if he was selfish and didn't care about her feelings, he would have pressured her for sex. If all he wanted was to satisfy himself, sex would have been his only agenda. Yet he's the one who decided they should withhold from sex, because he respects her.

Statutory age is not just sixteen years of age in England. It is also 16 here in Canada (and formerly, it was fourteen) and there is reason for that. Sixteen is not so delicate of an age that an adolescent is mentally incompetent of understanding the sexual relations he/she is consenting to. People equate a sixteen year old girl sleeping with an adult to a twelve year old child manipulated into sexual activity. It is ridiculous. I think at sixteen you’re mentally developed enough to have sex, understand its implications, without being taken advantage of. Now at that age it is true that teens are more susceptible to being tricked or manipulated into bed, but has Fitz ever done that? No. Aria is almost an adult. She is a young woman.

I frankly find it sad how a twenty-something year old could be put away for engaging in CONSENSUAL sex with a nearly full grown woman, while there are some criminals out there that actually assault and rape innocents and get lesser sentences. I don't find it fair to place someone like Ezra in the same camp as monstrous rapists who assault and force themselves on their victims. It is not even remotely comparable and a terrible insult to people who have suffered actual sexual violence.