I am not white-knighting and quite prepared to weather the inevitable shit-storm that ensues.
I first masturbated when I was 11 years old. I loved it. From that moment on I thought about sex all the time.
I saw a movie at a young age - In Praise Of Older Women - about a boy probably my age who gets initiated into sex at an early age. I fantasised about fucking my 11 year old classmates at school, my teachers even my aunts and female cousins. I longed for it. Sure I was incredibly inexperienced and naive - but I remember really wanting that experience. If I had met an adult who would have initiated me sexually I would have welcomed it. I would also not have considered this rape / paedophilia as I was insatiably curious about sex at that age.
Since then I met someone else who at age 11 was having sex with her brother who was a few years older than her. She initiated it, they were both curious, and they had sex together for years before realising it was considered "wrong". The same girl a few years later, had a "family friend" try to sexually assault her and she escaped, reported it, and her family had the guy crippled (crate at the factory they work "accidentally" fell on him and shattered his legs).
She still maintains that the sex with her brother was consensual, but this "family friend" was a rapist / paedeo and got what he deserved. I totally agree with her analysis based on my own horniness at the same age.
I also have a close friend who's parents divorced, and one of his mother's "boyfriends" sexually assaulted him - this of course was rape.
So I 100% do not condone paedophilia, rape, or incest - anything non-consensual. But consent is not black and white and not bound simply by law.
The "age of consent" itself is a local legal matter and variable. Across Europe it varies between 13 and 18!
In 1275 the age of consent here in the UK was 12. It wasn't raised to 13 until 1875 and then to 16 before the turn of the century.
To some extent it is therefore an arbitrary number and hardly a universal law! Of course it's designed to protect the young from abuse and I totally agree with the current age - but it doesn't allow for the fact that
people mature differently. If you are sexually curious even at a young age as I was and I
suspect Sienna was - then it's totally different to being groomed and abused. From my personal experience at least.
There is always a spectrum of human experience and only Sienna can talk authoritatively about her own personal experience and very brave of her to be so public about it.
Bring on the shit storm.