Right but when I was 15 I didn't think or feel like that, and I remember as perfectly as you do. At no point could someone I wanted to sleep with someone tricked me, especially if you know, I was specifically trying to have sex with them.
I would have said yes if I wanted to have sex with someone, simple as that, and I wouldn't do it because I "felt special" I would have done it because I wanted sex, and I liked the person I wanted to have sex with.
You're applying a giant broad analysis of how people act, especially 15 year olds, to literally everyone. If I did the same thing I would assume that all 15 year olds are capable of everyone I was, and laws like "statutory rape" wouldn't be reasonable in the slightest, because they weren't in my case at all.
Do you think that by 16 you had it all figured out, and that those things no longer applied to you? That you now were able to properly consent to an "older man" (I find it interesting that you're not saying older women, when the person you replied to did make it about being with an older women, but this might just be you making it more personal again) because legally that's the case. Somehow while you were 15 and becoming 16, you figured it all out, and now the idea of statutory rape in A LOT of places no longer applied to you.
I definitely don't agree with your analysis of what you had to offer or whatever. I would honestly believe that was the case with sex in general, and how you go about sex and relationships, and nothing to do with the age of your boyfriends. Someone who was 15 or 16 could easily use you, and I've watched it happen in person, that's not something older people are going out doing to your people. And generally speaking, I don't even think that shit makes any sense.
If you had sex with someone who was older because you wanted sex, that doesn't teach you about what you have to offer. It's sex. If you had sex with someone who was your same age, it would be literally the same.
Having sex with someone older isn't going to fuck you up any more than having sex with anyone would. The SPECIFIC SITUATION YOU ARE IN might, but lets not paint such broad strokes, or act like this kind of thing isn't common among people of the same age.