When the recent Epstein emails surfaced, I expected an appropriate response to the gross exploitation of minors by powerful men. What I did not expect was to hear a familiar argument entering mainstream discourse: not that sexual exploitation of children is acceptable, exactly, but that perhaps some of these girls were old enough that we should think about it differently. “He wasn’t a pedophile. He was into the barely legal type.” “He liked 15-year-old girls.” “He wasn’t into