Really goes to show how warped societal perceptions of sex are. It’s seen as this mystical thing that destroys minds that aren’t prepared to hear about it. It’s just a thing people do with their bodies. A thing that’s typically pretty intimate, sure, but intimacy isn’t that hard to understand, and sex doesn’t even have to be that intimate. Again, it’s just a thing people do with their bodies. People just attach so much extra baggage to the concepts of sex and sexuality that they lose sight of that.

Obviously understanding sex and consent and being a virtuoso musician aren’t comparable one-to-one, but if anything sex is easier to understand and execute. (I say this as a musician and composer who was sexually repressed most of their life.)

This is true of anything remotely related to children tbh

I’m sure the boys were none too pleased to be treated as victims and used as pawns against their mentor and friend. And given how society and the law treats genuine victims (not well), I have wonder how they were penalized by the law.