If you are an adult of say 40 years and you have an affair with a 16 year old girl, who freely consents to the arrangement, reads poetry and longfellow and can discuss world affairs at a higher level then your forty year old mates at the pub. Would you be excused?
In my state after you made that argument the presiding judge would lecture you at length about the error of your ways before sentencing you to prison.
Maturity does not over ride the legal age of consent.
You can’t have sex with 16 olds who have gumption, you can’t enter a legal contract with them, you can’t serve them alcohol or cigarettes and if you take them into a land based casino you’ll be asked to leave.
You are entitled to an opinion Axl, but in this case I just think the position you are taking on this one issue is seriously flawed in the eyes of the law and not advisable.