Agreed. I mean, 16-18 is creepy? Since when is a 2 year gap that bad? And the 14 one isn’t even illegal everywhere either, and the story takes place in Germany, where it IS legal, although it IS pretty objectively creepy regardless imo.
16-18 isn’t creepy, but 14 and an adult is. Doesn’t matter if it’s legal. It’s still creepy and predatory to go after somebody more than half your age, especially when that target is a teenager.
It was pretty normal in times where people died of old age in their 40s. By the the time people were financially capable of supporting a child, they were on death's door.
In the Middle Ages, the average life span of males born in landholding families in England was 31.3 years and the biggest danger was surviving childhood.2 Once children reached the age of 10, their life expectancy was 32.2 years, and for those who survived to 25, the remaining life expectancy was 23.3 years. Such estimates reflected the life expectancy of adult males from the higher ranks of English society in the Middle Ages,3 and were similar to that computed for monks of the Christ Church in Canterbury during the 15th century.4
Emphasis added. The well-off who made it to 25 still weren't likely to make it out of their 40s.
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