There are a significant number of women that don't start puberty until they are 16 or older.
a significant number of girls will start puberty when they are 8.
Puberty is what activates those feelings of arousal and sex drive.
Many people wouldn't see anything wrong with having sex with a girl that is 16 or older but I would see reason to object if she still hasn't gone through puberty.
That means any sex with those kinds of 16+ year olds would be rape.
A girl that is only 10 years old but started puberty at 8 could not reasonably be a victim of statutory rape.
It should be believed that she has those sexual impulses when the kinds of hormones that result in sexual impulses are present.
Moreover those girls that started puberty at 8 would reach peak fertility at age 14 but the girl who started puberty at 16 would reach peak fertility at 22.
In some states where legal marriage age or age of consent is 18 this effectively castrates any girl that simply happened to have a period too early.

I am opposed to castrating women.
I am opposed to raping women.

Mr Egg - go to this post

16 is the age of consent everywhere except for some US states. If you wanna have sex with one then go for it

I'm saying aoc at 16 still leads to what age of consent laws try to avoid.
Specifically that it makes the problem worse because the thing that is considered is the age and not the biological reality of the woman.
That allows people to justify raping a 17 year old while demonizing a 12 year old for wanting to have sex when it could be a very critical time in her life to do so.