Interesting that "recruitment" happens right after age of consent is reached. I guess eighteen year olds have some special intellectual quality that a twenty year old would lack?

It doesn't need to be anything sexual. It could just be that 18-year-olds have less experience with the world overall, a less developed moral compass, and fewer attachments to the larger world. World. So, you can mold them however you like.

It's still absolutely gross, but not necessarily gross like that