Arguably then, the law aims to protect unsuspecting young women from older, male sexual predators . In reality, statutory rape laws find their historical roots in a religious-legal system in which fathers valued virginal daughters for their high market value. In recent years, the defense of statutory rape laws has come to revolve around the idea of consent. Sex must be consensual. In a way, these laws are correct.
Young women are incapable of consenting to sex.
People don't consent to sex. Nations consent to peace treaties. People consent to used car deals. People do not consent to sex. Sex is not about harmony.