back to the big picture

I think you're mostly right on that -- I've gone down to considering rare cases to try to stay in touch with the concerns of some of the GC posters.

Dolls and tea parties may be more innocent than reality, but the vast majority of them want nothing to do with adult men in any romantic or sexual way, I fully agree. If they do have anything to do with adult men, it's most likely because they're coerced or forced. I assert such abuse and rape would likely rise dramatically if the age of consent was lowered.

If they do get stuck in court because they were abused, I bet they're much happier just talking about the facts than about whether they maybe agreed to it or didn't say "no" loudly enough. But mostly men will make a plea bargain if they know they'd be convicted and so they don't have to do trials.