what is your opinion on chris hansen?
He ruins lives needlessly, and he does it for fame and fortune if not out of blind conformance to social hysteria over sexophobic taboos.
Minors are able to give meaningful consent. The argument that they're not able to choose wisely whether to have sex with someone due to a not having a fully developed frontal lobe or whatever it is doesn't hold, as by the same token you could argue that they're not yet ready to decide what to wear for the day or what games to play with their friends. The only reason sexuality is regarded as something different and more crucial is because of society's deep-seated sexophobia and puritanism that makes sex and sexuality out to be something naughty and sullying, juxtaposed with our conception of children as being fundamentally innocent and our desire to keep them that way by protecting them from the realities of society. This is the same reason we don't tell little kids the real names for their genitalia, allow kids to masturbate (which obviously harms no one), or allow them to have sex with s/o's of their own age (which is also of course harmless). It's also why we lock people up, potentially ruining their lives, if they so much as go outside without covering up particular parts of their totally natural bodies.
People who get the ick about age gaps don't understand the natural male sex drive. And, even it's bad that older guys sometimes groom younger girls to have sex with them, Chris Hansen isn't catching people who do this, he's setting traps to catch people who want to have sex with who they think are already fully willing prospects.
Chris Hansen is a POS. He's dangerous.