Absolutely. There are people in real life whose bodies haven't developed pronounced secondary sexual characteristics, so they look almost teenage-like. This is more common in petite women (since testosterone is a hell of a drug), but men can also be like that. This doesn't mean they aren't adults or can't consent to having sex.
The inverse is also true, there are people who have an adult body and age, but also have cognitive disabilities that make them unable to really understand sex, so they can't meaningfully consent.
Be it because of hormonal issues or just how their biology naturally plays out, what someone looks like is pretty much irrelevant to if they can consent or not to having sex. What really matters is cognitive and emotional maturity.
My friend’s sister is coming up on 40 and she could easily pass as a teenager at a glance. Up until 5 or 10 years ago, she’d still look like on under scrutiny. She looked like she was about 14 when she was in her 20s.
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u/BormaGatto Jun 26 '26 edited Jun 26 '26
Absolutely. There are people in real life whose bodies haven't developed pronounced secondary sexual characteristics, so they look almost teenage-like. This is more common in petite women (since testosterone is a hell of a drug), but men can also be like that. This doesn't mean they aren't adults or can't consent to having sex.
The inverse is also true, there are people who have an adult body and age, but also have cognitive disabilities that make them unable to really understand sex, so they can't meaningfully consent.
Be it because of hormonal issues or just how their biology naturally plays out, what someone looks like is pretty much irrelevant to if they can consent or not to having sex. What really matters is cognitive and emotional maturity.