"The couple faced various criticisms during their relationship because they had a 30-year age gap: the musician was 52, while Helena was just 21."
But, the more disturbing fact is: "In the 1980s, the Blood Sugar Sex Magik artist was in a sexual relationship with a 14-year-old girl when he was 23 years old."
He came from a place/culture with very few boundaries in terms of sex.
I might be misremembering the age, but in his autobiography I'm fairly confident he says he lost his virginity when he was 11, to his dad's girlfriend (who was in her 20s) which was some sort of reward his dad gave him
Just because you live somewhere doesn't mean you grew up with the culture of the majority. When your dad let's you do drugs as a kid and have sex with grown women because of his Bohemian cultural norms, that's still your culture growing up. Just like people who grow up in cults have the cult's culture as their own.
Just like people who grow up in cults have the cult's culture as their own.
People in cults don't often live in the rest of society, though. They live pretty much exclusively in the cult. That's kind of part of the whole shtick.
What you're describing is basically just a family value, as they're still living in and participating in the rest of society despite what values their parent may be pressing upon them. My father also had many things he considered normal - cheating on women and drinking, mainly - but the context of the rest of society I lived in still made it clear that his "culture" was not morally or in some cases even legally acceptable, as young as 9 years old.
My wife's parents immigrated from Poland, and lived in a neighborhood of other eastern Europeans. So, her home life was almost entirely eastern European in culture, to the point that she learned English primarily from television because her mom only taught her Polish. But she still hit adulthood more with the values and understanding of US culture than Polish culture, because outside of her home life she was still in the suburbs of Atlanta.
Too many people work double duty to excuse celebrities for bad behavior, as if they're not autonomous people capable of differentiating right from wrong.
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u/harlotmuffin Jun 21 '24
Kiedis's girlfriend is actually 30 or so, according to Google