It seems too widespread to be a "kink"...
Although honestly, I think it is one. And if you have it, you should probably find other consenting adults to roleplay and enjoy it with.
But as far as I can tell, a fixation on underage sex partners (usually reported as men preying on very young women) is maybe just a notch removed from a really aberrant and creepy condition: pedophilia. A kind of "pedophilia borderline?" When a 37-year old man "dates" a fifteen-year old, it's creepy AF. And there seems to be an awful lot of it about.
The thing is, I just don't see the attraction.
I mean, 15-year-olds are at a very different stage of maturity than someone in their late 30s.
I'm not saying we all have to stick to partners within 5 years of our own age - circumstances definitely change. Even so, a 20 year old "dating" a 15-year-old, while maybe not as squicky as a 37 YO doing so, is still iffy and, in most places, potentially criminal.
I do get the appeal of the hot younger woman to the successful-but-woefully-insecure middle-aged (or elderly) misogynist. If you regard women as (essentially) an advanced form of livestock, not fully human like you, then you'd naturally want to "own" the one that would make all your successful-but-woefully-insecure middle-aged (or elderly) peers green with envy. Like having the hottest car, or the biggest... boat. Or something.
But can anyone tell me what the appeal is in having sex with someone who's not only immature and at a stage in life when they are developmentally focused on themselves and their peer group, likely with a great deal less breadth of experiences and interests than yourself, and, well... not necessarily able to enter into your own life experiences and developmental concerns?
It seems... weird.
WHY?
Unless, of course, they're just garden-variety creepy misogynist assholes who seek inexperienced young women because they're likely to be a) less threatening to your pitifully fragile ego and insecure manhood, and b) potentially easier to control, exploit, and abuse.
It that it, Representative Gaetz, you pathetic schmuck?
curiously,
Bright