They're creeps. And they probably don't have daughters so they can't gauge the level of disgust they're committing.
I personally think that's a sexis view. An 18 year old girl knows just as much what she's going with a 40 year old man as a 18 year old boy knows with a 40 women. 40 year old men aren't necassarily nastey.
I personally think that is a crazy age gap, but weirder things have happened. Boys are boys, and most have a sex crazed mind no matter what age. Just because they get older doesn't mean they want their partner to be too.
I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.