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I'm having a hard time understanding who are you trying to disprove with this statement:
I dont think OP even mentioned justifying rape. So what purpose do these straw men serve you?
Rivalarrival said that this doesn't say anything about rape:
You can pretend like all of the teenagers in the study are 18 and 19 years old, but I would counter that would be a faulty assumption.
Adult men having sex with underage children is rape.
Now I believe they where talking about this: https://lemmy.today/comment/23688619
But I do understand where you're coming from in this case.
What we can say from this data is that 100% of the cases it studies are rape. This data does not count all rapes: It counts only those rapes that have resulted in pregnancy. It doesn't count all teenage pregnancies: It doesn't count a case where two adolescents agree to have sex, and that sex results in pregnancy.
This particular data does not even support a claim that adults are having sex with children! That's the problem I am talking about. You have to go outside this data to make any meaningful conclusion. That is how terrible this data is.