As a Brazilian girl, Americans genuinely shocked me in a good way
Hello, I’m an 18-year-old woman from Brazil, and I wanted to say something I genuinely admire about Americans: how much you protect young women and men my age.
Sometimes I see posts about it, and I honestly admire that a lot. In Brazil, relationships between teenage girls and much older men are often treated as normal, even when there’s a big age gap.
Many girls experience harassment very early because the laws here are more permissive. The age of consent in Brazil is 14, so age-gap relationships involving teenagers are often socially accepted depending on the situation and the family.
Seeing Americans treat 18-year-olds as still very young and deserving protection honestly surprised me in a positive way.