"So if you can have sexual urges you're by definition an adult?"

"No, of course not -"

"I'm on your side here. We have to examine the things that 'everybody knows' here in order to make progress. I promise I am not attempting to seduce you into something awful."

"Okay, yeah. People start being able to consent when they turn eighteen."

"Why 18?"

"... because a hard line had to be drawn somewhere, right -" 

"It's not arbitrary that it's at the cutoff for adulthood, adulthood is a complex concept and it matters, right - but it's at the center of some fuzzy distribution, and could and has been drawn lower at some times. So let's set aside for the moment the category of "always children", say twelve and below, and look at the "sometimes children" in the six years between. Why can't you fuck a fourteen year old?"

"... Because fourteen-year-olds are really stupid."

"And six year olds are even dumber?"

"Yeah that tracks."

"So what's wrong with an adult woman in full control of her faculties deciding to roleplay like she's fourteen?"

Audrey winces, then thinks. 

"It... erodes the protections on children?"

"How so?"

"Someone might confuse the two."

"How tall are you?"

"Five foot ten."

"Ever seen a six year old who was five foot ten?"

"... no."

"So you're not concerned about the 'always children' category here, you're concerned about the 'sometimes children'."

"Yeah, that sounds about right."

"Do you ever intend to do little roleplay somewhere with actual teenagers present?"

"Fuck no."

"So what's the harm?"

"There... doesn't seem to be one."

"Do you still feel like it's taboo?"