Yup. There are exceptions. I would not suggest making it illegal unless it is toward underage. There has to be a legal age for consent and quite a few folks are already sexually active in their late teens.

The statistics on large age gaps are off the scale that they will fail. I do not consider 9 to 15 years much of an age gap. I am talking 20-30 years and directed at 18-25 year olds. I am sure Kate Beckinsale made her boy toy's sexual life fun for a while, but it is still predatory.

She is 24 years older than him. She has a hundred times more influence, independence, and experience. She is extremely intelligent as well which to me makes it even worse.

Flip this to Judge Roy Moore who as an attorney in Alabama was going after 17 and 18 year olds when he was in his mid-thirties. He was powerful, and the girls he was going after could be easily hoodwinked. Their parents were often hoping to have their daughter's marry up.

The only way polygamist get young girls to be part of some old coots harem is to get them young. There is a reason cults choose younger people.