Oh so it's fine that she goes to war as a child and kill and die but oh my god save her from icky cooties? And if you consider her a child then she should not be in the field because children have terrible judgement. Yeah sorry, still doesn't compute.
Buffy made all the calls in her relationship with Angel. Seems weird to me to have an issue with Angel when he was the cautious one. She wanted to date and she dictated the way their intimacy progressed. Even on the night they did it, Angel was the one saying 'maybe we shouldn't'. You could argue that he could have kept it in his pants anyway but IMO after another close call with almost death, Buffy made the decision. If she wants this experience with this guy, let her have it. There is always a very real chance she could be dead tomorrow, I'm all for her 'seizing the moment'.
Once again, it's the sex vs. violence deal. Like how being a serial killer is perfectly fine, and they can always get better. But if a man has ever raped, or tired to rape a woman, he's the scum of the Earth who needs to be put to sleep. Rape is a very DISGUSTING thing. But as bad as it is, people can still recover from that. There is no recovery for being brutally murdered, and the very last moments you will ever have a life are filled with terror & pain.
Also, I am sure many here, and everywhere were having sex as teens, and see nothing wrong with it because they were ready. If a teen is old enough to decide they're ready, and actually be having sex, then surely they can consent to who they wanna have it with? I always thought age of consent was fine at 16, like they have it in the UK. Unless they finally upped it.
Then we have to factor in Angel's time. He's from the 18th or 19th century. The legal age of consent then was 12. lol I think it was raised to 13 in the 1860's. Clearly age worked differently when he was growing up. So Buffy being 16, and already knowing the horrors of death & war takes her childhood off of her a bit.
I don't think age shouldn't be a factor when one of the characters is immortal or nigh-immortal, and if it's a fight series where teens are saving the world, going to war, and killing others. Again, childhood innocence isn't a big thing there. If we were dealing with normal kids with no world experience who were still playing with toys, I can agree on no sex. lol But I also notice that age only comes up with older men & younger women. If it's an older guy dating a young(er) girl, he'd be called a pedo or predator. If it's an older woman dating a young guy, there's nowhere near the same amount of disgust.
Again the Marvel comics I read. Mystique is one of the oldest mutants around, but nobody bats an eye at any of her relationships or sexcapades. But when it's Magneto or Sabretooth, people wanna talk about how their relationships are gross because the age gaps are too big. Magneto has a longer lifespan, and was around 60+ when he was with Rogue, who was over 18. People hate the age gap. Sabretooth is over 100. He had a relationship with an 18-year-old, people found it gross. Then he fell in love with Monet, who was anywhere between 19 - 23, and once again some are complaining the age gap is too big. Monet is a grown woman who lost her mother to her brother at a young age, then was tortured by said brother for years, escaped and continued fighting the good fight, had her first relationship at 17, then lost said boyfriend to a horrible death, then died and got sent to Hell at 18, only being resurrected by the sacrifice and subsequent death of her new boyfriend. Monet was far from an innocent young girl with no life experience by the time Sabretooth met her.
