Hills (1980) connects two different perspectives regarding deviance and explains that deviance is determined not by the deviant but by the observer. In order to understand sexual deviance, we must first understand the decision makers and people who view a specific sexual relationship as deviant. If a thirty-year-old man is arrested for rape because he has a sexual relationship with a fourteen-year-old girl, the absolutist is outraged and cites the man as a sexual deviant - a predator - without ever considering that the man could be from Mexico where girls are married at fourteen and start a family. The cultural perspective is not even considered because the absolutist has a high moral compass and his way of seeing things is absolute (Hills, 1980). From a relativist perspective, the above case study reveals a cultural problem, not sexual perversion or deviance (Hills, 1980). We assign deviant status based on our own concepts and value system; rather than seeing the situation of the parties involved who have been enculturated into a system that allows this specific behavior, they are now sanctioned