Russell Brand admits to sex with 16yo when he was 30

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04-23/russell-brand-admits-to-sex-with-16yo-when-he-was-30/106598326

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Noite_Etion@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 135d (4 replies)

Watch as the ole "im not a pedo im actually an ephebophilie, which is totally different and actually normal" argument appears.

jerkface@lemmy.ca · -13 pts · 135d (3 replies)

oh yeah it's so much better to demonize an almost totally unrelated population who typically don't even commit sex crimes. It's way better to stigmatize a medical condition that people had no control over, no matter how they actually behave. You sure nipped that problem in the bud, UH-HUH!

Just fucking say child molester. Actual pedophiles are no more likely to commit sex crimes than the general population are.

WalleyeWarrior@midwest.social · 11 pts · 135d

Just to be clear, you want us to feel sorry for sexual predators who target children?

IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 135d (1 reply)

found one

homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 135d

It’s like ringing a bell. One will always come out of the woodwork.

Spacehooks@reddthat.com · 8 pts · 135d

I was wondering why he would say that unless he was running for murican goverment. Seems like Age of consent is 16 in Britian so he feels he did nothing legally wrong.

AnchoriteMagus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 135d (4 replies)

Russell Brand admits to sex with 16yo when he was 30 confesses to statutory rape.

Fixed that for ya.

southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 135d

Was it? Statutory age varies across the world.

Even if legal, it's creepy as fuck all, but that is still different from statutory

Edit: the article quotes him as saying that's the age in England, implying that's where it occurred. So, creepy as fuck all, but the wrong terminology.

remon@ani.social · 6 pts · 135d

You literally made it technically incorrect. The worst kind of incorrect.

WolfmanEightySix@piefed.social · 6 pts · 135d

I’m not one for defending him, and it is fucking weird, but it’s legal here.

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 135d

With legal knowledge like this, you could be US Attorney General.