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He Just Told Me Lies to Have Sex with a Teenage Girl
There Are No Limits to What Humans Will Do.
There are stories that make us stop and question everything we think we know about human nature.
This is one of them.
A 41-year-old woman, a member of the British parliament, finally managed to name what happened to her when she was 15 years old.
It wasn’t a “teenage relationship.”
It was grooming. It wasn’t “sex.”
It was statutory rape.
And you know what pisses me off the most about this whole story? It’s not just what he did.
It’s how everyone around her reacted. It’s how the entire society conspired to make a 15-year-old girl feel guilty for being manipulated by an adult man.
He told her he loved her.
He told her she was incredible. And she believed him.
Because that’s what we do when we’re young and vulnerable and looking for love in a world that seems hostile to us.
We believe the pretty lies they tell us.
