Would you continue to see him if you found this out?

Forgive my ignorance on this, but is not knowing someone's age a defence?

I know it is fiction, but Eastenders ran a story about similar. A male character had a girlfriend, and she turned out to be underage, but she lied about her age to him.. Her parents reported him and he was put on the Sex Offenders Register.

God no. Your don't want to have a relationship with a paedophile.

Were any of them charged with a crime and sentenced? I doubt it. Think about how difficult convictions are in rape trials and sexual assault cases.

I think the fact he was actually prosecuted makes me think that no, I wouldn't. I also think he's told you what he thinks he can get away with, not the full truth.

I was also a 15/16 year old in the late 90s who was drinking in pubs, not getting asked for ID and quite possibly snogged a couple of older lads in clubs. And while I might have looked grown up, I'm fairly certain that one conversation would have exposed my age.

If it was in the 80s then the fact he was convicted suggests it's a very different situation to what he's suggesting because it was virtually unheard of for men to be convicted in that situation.

I absolutely passed as 18 when I was 15 (80’s). Cocky as all fuck and would have caused a lot of problems for the 20+ men I routinely dated.

But ending up with a suspended sentence for it, doesn't.

Yes I would IF it was say the 80’s when it happened. Ten years ago, no.

You know the answer to this yourself OP. A big No. The man has told you who he is so believe him.

Absolutely this. I feel some people are totally missing the fact he was convicted. How difficult it for that to happen, how seldom it happens.

It's not simply a man accidentally dating someone younger at all

I dated a man who knocked up a 16 year old when he was 21. He was quite honestly the worst man I’ve ever met. He lied profusely about being a pilot, even to the MOD who paid him to certify the airworthiness of their planes!
absolutely avoid this scummy man.

Not if the 24-year-old man performs due diligence.

This, it happens

Fuck no. I'd lose my job and professional registration if I was in a relationship with a RSO, but besides that, just no.

There's no chance he went to court for having 'consensual' sex with a 15 year old.

Would give me the ick.

He won't be telling you the truth op, he will have fabricated a spiel just close enough to the truth but not including the really horrible bits about why he was convicted.
Do you know how hard it is to convict for crimes like this.

I wouldn't have anything to do with him again and if you're on the fence have a think about being in contact with a sex offender, this will affect your job, your relationships with other people, if you were my sister I'd not allow you in my home or around my children.

Don't be daft op, he's an offender, they manipulate and scheme everyone around them for many reasons including gaining access to children or just using you as a facade to appear " normal "

This happened to a friend of mine, he was 19, in a pub, she was drinking in there. He had no idea. Her parents found out and reported him. He had to carry it round forever due to his career as had to disclose it on his enhanced DBS. I think it is not so common now as its much harder to get in anywhere underage.

You can change your vote. You click on the one you meant.

It depends. Did he know? I know some wont want to hear it, but some young people do like to pretend they are older than they are and go to nightclubs etc (yet reveal their true age to get a cheap bus there).

In my gothy clubbing days, there was a regular who was 15. She had fake ID and even managed to DJ a few nights. The people who knew her real age were always warning men off of her (and they listened, thankfully they erred on the side of caution). She was always upset but she was a kid FFS.
When I was in my early 20s, me and a friend went to a rock club and my friend (same age as me) went off snogging some guy. He then admitted he was 14. She was absolutely mortified.

They dated for a while, and this man in his twenties never twigged that she was a child? She must have been a very accomplished liar if she was talking believably about being at work or university instead of school, if he never questioned why she didn’t drive, why she never let him in the house, why her friends were all schoolchildren…

He either knew, or he was wilfully ignorant.

I'm 52. No, it wasn't.

We cringed at anything over 18 - in their 20s? Gross - and the bloke at my Saturday job who got his 15 year old girlfriend pregnant was taken out the back of the warehouse by the other male staff and given very strong instructions to never go anywhere near the Saturday girls or he'd have more to deal with.

No. Is he still on the sex offenders register ?

Look - whatever anyone did by choice themselves (pp I mean) is one thing. Your ex boyfriends don’t have a suspended sentence, do they?
This guy does.
OP - if you are genuinely asking. No. I would never speak to him again.

Nobody gets a suspended sentence for a one night stand with someone who managed to get into an over 18s nightclub and I don't think anyone benefits from downplaying something like this.