>>510963539No, Epstein was doing age of consent law arbitrage to blackmail people. 1800s anti-suffragists explicitly predicted that hiking the age of consent would lead to blackmail. You don't know if someone is 16 or 22 just by looking at them, hence blackmail opportunities arise.
https://historyandpolicy.org/policy-papers/papers/the-legacy-of-1885-girls-and-the-age-of-sexual-consent/
https://worldhistorycommons.org/review-age-consent-legislation-texas