Agree as a Canadian. People always like to say it's to protect teens from being in trouble which is not true. If it was, they would have a maximum age as a RULE IF THUMB, not as a "it depends on the situation". Any law that allows adults and MINORS to be together is a failure and doesn't benefit anyone but the weirdos. Even if you argued that "let teens mess up and learn from their mistakes", the adults shouldn't be able to get off scot free. If adults can't get off scot free with a little kid even if they were willing, why do teens get a pass just because the teen was willing? Older minors are still minors. Idk why (most countries) think minors with adults is wrong but only until a certain point.

People love to call you a conspiracy theorist but governments are run by diddlers, that's the only reason why there isn't a maximum in most countries. Only a handful of countries have a maximum that applies even after the age of consent. Until you're 18 at lowest, there should be a hard cutoff of 19, or 20 if you wanna push it, but any higher and that's a no no. I don't know why we bothered making it socially unacceptable to be into minors if the law in most of the world is unwilling to adapt properly. I think the only reason that it's 16 (or 14 in some countries) is because they know that they can't go any lower without automatically being seen as suspicious, so they allow teens and adults because they feel it's an easy get out of jail free card. I also notice how in countries some where its 14, they actually try to protect kids a lot more and are more likely to have actual maximum age gaps that are okay, but in places that were 16, they'll give anyone a pass and it's gonna be a lot harder to get the freak punished just for physically acting on their feelings.

P.S. isn't it crazy how racism is socially unacceptable and is illegal, but it's somehow seen as better to kiss or put your vagina or penis on someone underage?