Feeling like a criminal

Right now I’m freaking out. I remember about a few years ago I read a Hentai manga on Reddit, and at the end they mentioned one of the character’s ages as 16. I don’t know why but I read it again at some other point like a week later, but I was bothered by the age, so I never went back. Never downloaded it or anything. I just remember being aroused by it, and now I’m worried I was aroused by CP. Technically that material is illegal in the US, which I was unaware of then. I never thought much of it, but now I feel like a horrible person.

The age of consent is not 18 uniformly across all the regions in the United States. In some, it is 16. Anyway, it's not as if you think about a 17-year-old sexually the day before their birthday makes you a bad person, and then the next day it's different.

But I realize that these kinds of rationalizations don't mean much when you are suffering OCD/anxiety. It's going to do what it wants to do.

Hope things get better.

And it's manga, it's not even as if it were a flesh-and-blood person you were interacting with.