I was very surprised a few minutes ago while talking to another lawyer to hear him argue that Polanski's cultural contributions outweighed his societal transgressions referred to in this thread.

He also pointed out that in many jurisdictions consensual sex with a 13 year old is not per se unlawful, and that in the USA there are states (his example was Tennessee) in which women can be married at 12, so if they can consent to sex inside marriage it is absurd to argue that they cannot consent to sex outside it.