He makes a sound like a satisfied cat and kisses where Asher's shoulder meets his neck. 

"We shouldn't do this."

"Why not?" against the skin of Asher's shoulder. 

"I'm like six years older than you."

".....s......o?" 

"So, like, I'm more emotionally mature than you, and there's a power dynamic."

"...the power dynamic caused by you being six years older than me is not bigger than the power dynamic between me and my gang leader, trust me." 

"Disney Planet is terrible in lots of ways but it doesn't help you any if I add another terrible thing to the pile."

"I don't — I really don't get how you being six years older than me is a big deal? The fact that you're, what, twenty-two does not make you that much more able to hurt me than if you were sixteen and our positions were otherwise exactly the same. And there are a lot of terrible things about my planet but gang structures are really not one of them." 

"I guess it's different in some ways because you're from a different world but-- I have a lot of legal rights you don't have, I can drink, I can control my own money, I'm not dependent on my parents."

"I'm not dependent on my parents either, if I had money I'd be in control of it, and being allowed to drink does not give you that much power." 

"And there's also, like, brain development stuff-- I mean, apparently even I don't have a fully adult brain yet, that's supposed to happen when you're like 25, but teenagers are generally more impulsive and worse at making decisions than adults, and that makes it easier for adults to take advantage of them."

"...I mean, I have ever made a sexual decision I later regretted, but 'your brain isn't fully formed and there's some nebulous power dynamic I won't elaborate on' is not actually the same thing as 'hello, asshole sadistic rapist, please be an asshole sadistic rapist at me until I stop thinking.'" 

"And I don't want to be a sexual decision you regret."

"...you're an insanely gorgeous alternate universe version of one of my favorite people ever and I don't know how to explain that the fact that you have gone around the sun six more times than I have is not going to make me regret having sex with you." 

"I mean, that might be true, but you'd probably say that in worlds where it's a good idea and worlds where it's a terrible idea, that's the problem."

"If you don't want to you can just say that, you don't have to make something up." 

"No, I really do, of course I do."

"Then why not. 'Maybe you will for nebulous reasons regret it' is not a reason not to do things or nobody would ever do anything." 

"It's illegal here for a reason."

"Sodomy is illegal." 

"Sodomy is illegal on Disney Planet because Disney Planet is dumb and makes lots of things that are fine illegal. Having sex with underage people is illegal on Earth because making it legal actually does lead to a bunch of people having sex they don't want and that makes them worse off."

"Your me is my age and you're dating him." 

"I was really bad at not dating him when I tried."

"My Asher is also my age and he has sex with people who are significantly older than you."