Link Chances are, you have or someone you know has dated an older man at some point as a teenager. If you have, you may have felt special and mature to be in an adult relationship — especially since society teaches girls that male attention is desirable and reflective of their worth. Freeform Because it's so normalized, we recently asked women of the BuzzFeed Community who have dated older men as teenagers and later realized they were predators to share their stories. More than women opened up to us, revealing how common and insidious it is for predatory older men to date teenagers — so here are 39 of their stories: 1. I assumed he was in his late twenties but realized he was in his early thirties after I had gone on a few dates with him. I was aware that this was messed up, but I was not experienced.
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