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Let's say canonically Pokemon Red/Blue either takes place in 1996 or 2004 and thus you see a Red and Blue that are in their early to late 20s come their older incarnations in Pokemon SM. You have grown ass adults supporting a whole system of pokemon leagues. This shit been going on for decades even if the pokedex in its modern incarnation, pioneered by Professor Oak, is a fairly young late 20th century/early 21st century invention.
People have to know sending your girls out into the world to do the pokemon league run is basically the universe-equivalent of sending them to an Catholic all-girls boarding school. Guarantee you a good chunk of them will have had their first allo-orgasm being eaten out by a cool onee-san or a gregarious rival in the private lounge of a pokemon center within the first two weeks of strapping down their travel bag and getting their starter.
Ain't no predators that's just the pokemon league.