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> Underage prostitutes (which are extremely common in Europe) can't consent.

You better define "extremely common" or come up with a proper reference for that claim.

"You better..." signals hat you don't agree because the quoted line does not fit your worldview. Meybe "You better" come with some support for whatever point you want to make?

Meanwhile:

http://beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/greece.ht... http://beta.globalmarch.org/worstformsreport/world/hungary.h... http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/20496.php

The null hypothesis of course. None of your links supports the "extremely common" statement, nice try though.

Well, they do come to the conclusion that sex trafficking involves tens of thousands of minors a year in Europe. That's enough to make me sick. It means that there must be hundreds of thousands of men who pay for raping minors, since technically having sex with unconsenting minors is called rape in most countries.

On the other hand, prostitution isn't considered an honorable thing, and exploiting/raping minors is even more frowned upon, even these conservative numbers are "extremely common".

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