Dr. Casey Lawrence
1 min readFeb 29, 2024

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Aaron Taylor-Johnson was 100% groomed. He may have been 17 when they met, when he was auditioning for Nowhere Boy, but even if he was 18, she was the director of the movie he, an unknown, was auditioning for. She was his boss. She had his career in her hands. They got married when he was 18. A lot of people have called that what it is -- predatory and creepy. It gets brought up regularly in the media.

So I don't think it's infantilizing either gender of 18-year-old to be concerned when they're "courted" by a 42-year-old. I think teenagers will make mistakes, but there's a difference between treating them like children and helping them to recognize red flags and escape those situations rather than becoming baby-trapped like Aaron Taylor-Johnson was and so many young people are, including Vili Fualaau. https://abcnews.go.com/US/mary-kay-letourneau-fualaau-vili-fualaau-detail-path/story?id=30160737

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Dr. Casey Lawrence
Dr. Casey Lawrence

Written by Dr. Casey Lawrence

Canadian author of three LGBT YA novels. PhD from Trinity College Dublin. Check out my lists for stories by genre/type.

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