I actually train on child development and yes, you’re correct, the uncinate fasciculus is the last bit of brain to properly drop into place and does so when you’re in your mid-twenties. Which begs the question what do you want to do about it? Society has decided the age of consent and the age of adulthood falling at 18 in plenty of places. Here in the UK the age of consent is 16 and I think that’s too low. I think the US has got something legally right for a change(!).

I think I agree with some of what you’re saying, but I don’t see it as a solution. I think you have to educate young women as best you can and society has to get better at policing and prosecuting those who transgress from the legal situation. I think on the one hand deriding the dominance hierarchy as something you hate but on the other hand using it as a handy way for absolving women of responsibility for poor decision making isn’t right. Women are either mature capable and able to hold their own in a dominance hierarchy or they need protecting and lack some form of capacity. I think it’s disingenuous to attempt a both sides argument and I think it’s disempowering.

Radical solution 2. Raise the age of consent to 40. ;o)