For the age of consent, when people bring up why is 18 the magic number (I know it varies), I didn't have a good answer but thought about it and came up with that 16 years old is basically living adult in tutorial mode. At 16 you're getting your first job, you're driving for the first time, you're experiencing life with less parental supervision, but you still need the safety net of being a minor. So it being illegal for a grown adult to have sex with you while you're in adult tutorial mode is just another safety net. I also find that the people that bitch about 18 being dumb and nonsensical as the age of consent would always bitch until it's lowered to their specific pedophile age of choice.
If it were 16, they'd want 14
If it were 14, they'd want 12 and so on
The legal age is 18 and you have to draw that line hard. That's why yes, it does matter if they were 17 years, 11 months, 364 days 59 minutes and 59 seconds old. Anyone that cries about it is a pedophile.
I will also absolutely judge you if you are 40+ and exclusively date below 25s. I've seen people defending Anthony Kiedis, a literal pedophile who has dated 15 year olds.