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Unwittingly had 'sex' with a child, realised it was a child, had 'sex' a second time.
And wrote a song about it. And then wrote it into his autobiography.
How this man apparently skated through the #MeToo movement unscathed is truly baffling.
this post was submitted on 09 Dec 2025
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It's weird, I was 20 years old once. I knew a lot of people who were 20 years old the same time I was 20 years old. None of them raped any children. Some of them were in bands, they didn't rape any children. Some of them were addicted to drugs, they didn't rape any children.
He did specify that he was also a rockstar and a drug addict. I don't think their point was just the age
As someone who's gone through a meth addiction, I've seen it warp people and make them capable of things they'd never do normally. And I do mean sexually. This has been a topic at every HIV clinic I've worked for, the counselors would have pretty typical straight guys who would turn into nympho gay bottoms once they got high. I don't think it's a latent sexuality thing, I think their circuits are just so blown out they turn into a different person entirely. I've not been addicted to heroin (yet!) but I have to assume there's similar dissociation and personality changes from chronic use.
Writing about it later is gross as hell but 2004 was peak "gross fucking masculinity" time when this sort of shit was almost celebrated, so I can see him or the ghostwriter thinking it would be a brag of some sort.
Is he still doing it now that he's sober? Is he contrite? These are things I would factor in, even if it was a pattern during his drug use. I haven't followed RHCP in a very long time so IDK.
14-year-olds can't consent you fucking weirdo. That's called rape.
Legally it depends on local laws. Morally it's really up to debate, but there definitely are some 14-year-olds that are mature enough to consent.
Found Anthony Kiedis' Lemmy account
Yeah nah. Romeo & Juliet laws don't cover this because 14 and 20 is too far apart. And you can not legally consent if you're under 18 in almost all developed countries. There is no legal debate for these countries.
Hard disagree. Some will say or act like they consent but at 14 your brain is not fully developed. They might find out how bad of a decision that was only 10 years later. Consent does not only mean verbal or physical agreement, but also to be absolutely sure someone has a full understanding of all actions and consequences, and at 14 you can not presume that. There's a reason the age of consent is 18. Almost everyone has developed a grasp of these things at 18yo and above.
He is not a Jeffrey Epstein, but holy shit call it what it is.
Tell me you are from the USA without telling me you are from the USA.
Calling literally ALL of Europe "not developed" is.. something. Age of consent in EU is around 15, and it is 14 in many countries including Germany (which has equivalent of Romeo & Juliet laws above the age of 21, but still 14 and 20 sleeping together would be 100% legal).
So, please look outside of your borders once in a while, it may change your perspective. :)
I'm literally from Europe lol
So much wrong with this...I encourage you to actually look up the laws you're talking about before you start exploiting minors in Europe. For starters, the EU has no age of consent.
In Germany, performing sexual actions on a child, i.e. minors below 14, is a crime, commonly called child abuse (§176 StGB). If someone is working with minors, e.g. as a teacher, it's illegal to perform (even "consensual") sexual actions on minors (students of their school) below 16 or 18, respectively, if they are in some authority relation with said minor (e.g. their teacher) (§174 StGB).
Yes every country in Europe has laws that address power relationships and ages of consent. "Age of consent in EU is around 15" is a meaningless statement and "14 and 20 sleeping together would be 100% legal" is quite incomplete with regard to Germany. People have been throwing variations of these statements around the internet since the beginning.
Not defending the action, but age of consent is not 18 in all countries or states.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent_by_country
While technically correct, it's worth pointing out that must places still have stachatory laws in there too. My state for instance has age of consent at 16 but if one of the participants is older than 18 the younger or their legal guardian can press charges.
This is because it's unreasonable to expect dating 16 year olds are celibate and punishing them is dumb, however, by 18 you should know you don't fuck kids in highschool and then it's left up to the case by case to decide.
No there aren't and no it isn't you weird pedophile
No.