Age of Consent

[red_jon]

It is. I think I'm confused.

[Dis]

well that's what I thought.

consent with a person of any age correct? Or am I mistaken?

It could mean consent with other 16 year olds. But who ever needed a legal age of consent for that?

[red_jon]

I was saying that at 16 someone isn't physically a child, so it isn't paedophillic to sleep with a 16 year old. I've done stuff with 25 year olds - they aren't paedophiles.

[Dis]

well for better or for worse many prudes in the U.S. think it is sick for a 25 year old to have sex with a 16 year old. This is why it is illegal.

Many extreme people would equate that with paedophilia. This is how the situation is in the U.S. You won't find many people that accept a relationship between a 25 year old and a 16 year old. Esp if the 16 year old is a girl.

[MrFun]

Originally posted by red_jon
I was saying that at 16 someone isn't physically a child, so it isn't paedophillic to sleep with a 16 year old. I've done stuff with 25 year olds - they aren't paedophiles.

But under U.S. law anyway, those 25 year olds would be prosecuted as statutory rapists.

[Eli]

Re: Age of Consent

Originally posted by red_jon
I just realised that both the UK and Israel both equalised the gay and straight ages of consent at 16 in November 2000. Coincidence.

Didn't seem to get much press when it was finally pushed through.

You said the magic word. This thread is doomed to become a ME thread in 20 posts.

[red_jon]

Well I was 17. And it was oral sex. Does that count?

[MrFun]

Originally posted by red_jon
Well I was 17. And it was oral sex. Does that count?

No more details beyond that, please.


The statutory rape laws vary from one state to another within the United States, but in many of them the other person would be prosecuted accordingly.

[Shi Huangdi]

I don't really buy the "Your parent's support you, so therefore you can't consent" argument. We treat housewives as full adults. We treat old retired people who have lived with their children as full adults. We even treat those weird people who still can't support themselves in their legal adulthood and live in their parents. Consent should have to do with your mental fitness to be able to perform an action and understand the choice you make and the consequences thereof.(Or in the case of drinking age in the US it's based on the safety of the highways).

[Caligastia]

Re: Age of Consent

Originally posted by red_jon
I just realised that both the UK and Israel both equalised the gay and straight ages of consent at 16 in November 2000.

My birthday!

[Solly]

Predatory homosexuals everywhere rejoiced when that decision was made.

[Dis]

what about predatory heterosexuals?

[red_jon]

Originally posted by Boddington's
Predatory homosexuals everywhere rejoiced when that decision was made.

WTF is wrong with you? I can legally have sex and choose to have sex with whoever I want. You are no-one to tell me if I'm mature enough to do so.
You need serious help, for God's sake live and let live.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by MrFun


No more details beyond that, please.


The statutory rape laws vary from one state to another within the United States, but in many of them the other person would be prosecuted accordingly.

That's because you live in a very silly country.

[Dr Strangelove]

The medical community considers pedophilia as pertaining to the desire or commission of sexual acts with prepubertal children. The age of puberty may vary a bit, but to a physician examining the victim the fact, of the attainment of puberty, is easily determined.