Age of Consent

[Carlos Thin]

It's been mathematically proven that the age of consent is half your age plus seven.

 

[Arctic]

She only tastes like she's 8 I swear!

 

[Yawning Bulbasaur]

I DIDN'T KNOOOOWWW SHE WAS 15!!!!

Guess I'll just have to kill myself with a ballpoint pen...

 

[Pikonic]

It's been mathematically proven that the age of consent is half your age plus seven.

20 is a tad high.

 

[Anchuent Christory]

It seems strange to assign a number to such a thing, but sadly we need a black and white law to stop older assholes fucking little girls. At the end of the day, teens are gonna get their fuck on regardless, and as is the way of things, setting a rule just makes teenagers want to break it.

Here in the UK it's 16, but you can't watch porn until you're 18, go figure.

 

[Van Darkholme]

It's 14 here. Go Germany!
You can't legally drink beer till you're 16 btw...not like today's kids give a shit or anything.

 

[DuskEngine]

I have a 24 year old friend whose girlfriend turns 18 later this year, and I don't think it's that weird.
Then again, they're in Saudi Arabia, so I don't think she's legally considered an adult at any point in her life.

 

[AnimuGinger]

I have a 24 year old friend whose girlfriend turns 18 later this year, and I don't think it's that weird.
Then again, they're in Saudi Arabia, so I don't think she's legally considered an adult at any point in her life.

No age of consent. Sex illegal outside of marriage. No minimum age for marriage, I believe. Whenever your father decides you're ready, I guess.

 

[DuskEngine]

No age of consent. Sex illegal outside of marriage. No minimum age for marriage, I believe. Whenever your father decides you're ready, I guess.

I think he mentioned that the minimum age for marriage is 12. But there's no age of consent per se.
They are, understandably, trying to figure out how to get her the fuck out.

 

[HG 400]

Let me preface this post by saying that I like the idea of fucking dogs, but all age of consent laws should be repealed as they're discriminatory and basically no different from homophobia.

 

[Ification]

Let me preface this post by saying that I like the idea of fucking dogs, but all age of consent laws should be repealed as they're discriminatory and basically no different from homophobia.

inb4 it turns out you're not trolling.

 

[HG 400]

inb4 it turns out you're not trolling.

I am not trolling.

 

[Teddy]

Personally. I say wait til ya married, but knowing how the most teens are, I doubt they would do that.

So 18 is a good age. Old enough to make a logical decision sexually. My friends are quite diverse on this topic. Some say 21, some say 15.

 

[Lefty's Revenge]

The age of consent in my state is 16, with close-in-age exemptions. I think that's good. It provides a balance between keeping adults from taking advantage of particularly young kids, but keeps people involved in more understandable (say, 19/17) pairings from going to jail. They just go to the Maury show instead.

Though, I don't really claim that any specific age is ideal for age of consent. There might be some room to tweak the specific number.

I feel like all I do on this site these days is agree with Marvin but I'm kinda in this camp. There can't be an ideal number because maturity varies from person to person. A 16 year old may date a 19 or 20 year old and be fine but an 18 year old can easily get into a relationship with someone older than them that will fuck them up.

I was just thinking about this today because I have a friend whos 18 and a virgin and the dude she was talking to whos in his mid to late 20s has a rather taboo fetish I don't feel we need to get into that he really wants to act out. And despite her telling him shes not into it he kept pressuring her to try it out. She cut him off as a result but it made me wonder. What if she didnt have such firm boundaries set and he actually got her to do it? That could potentially be really damaging and it'd be perfectly legal. She was already crying about the whole ordeal without anything actually happening because shes kind of sensitive and was emotionally invested.

I agree theres no ideal age. But I think even if you're dating an 18 or 19 year old and your more than 3 years older than them you need to be careful with how you handle that person because you can still do alot of damage to them.

TL;DR: 16~18. Almost feel like if you're significantly older than 18 you should be held accountable for trying to do super fowl shit with an 18 or 19 year old.

 

[AnOminous]

TL;DR: 16~18. Almost feel like if you're significantly older than 18 you should be held accountable for trying to do super fowl shit with an 18 or 19 year old.

This is basically the problem with AoC laws. No matter where you draw the line, you're going to prohibit things that probably aren't terribly harmful while also not preventing things that are, for instance, the especially naive and pliable 19 year old and similar examples.

There is one reason and one reason only for having a bright line rule at a specific age, and that is that it is easy to administer. Is the person above or below the age in question? Case closed. It puts the onus of making damn sure, at peril of prison, on the elder partner.

That's not perfect, but it's acceptably efficient.

 

[GV 002]

SHORT ESSAY TIME

Looking at this from a purely scientific perspective, you can't fight biology. Humans become ready to 'mate' once they hit puberty, which can be anywhere between nine and fourteen, roughly, and become too old for breeding at around fifty-sixty. Biologically the 'age of consent' should well be from when the individual hits puberty, which indicates that one's body is ready for breeding/parenting.

HOWEVER

Humans have kind of fucked (hurr) the system. We don't usually copulate to breed anymore and have developed methods to prevent impregnation so we can focus on the pleasure and companionship that sex brings. Also, as a species whos' young develops at a considerably slow rate both physically and mentally, modern humans have for the most part implemented an unspoken 'childhood line'; humans encourage innocence, purity, education and play right up to a certain age, and beyond this age you're basically left to figure things out on your own. We don't mentally prepare or educate our offspring for sex at the age that they biologically should be prepared for it, which leads to, what in a lot of cultures would be considered incidents, tragedies, general nastiness and crimes occurring. It actually makes a lot of sense when you watch kids at play (not in a gross way, put down the phone to Mr Hanson); boys are basically little warriors, establishing a pecking order and weeding out the weak, playing games of endurance, violence and status. Girls are little mothers, gravitating towards baby dolls to look after and playing 'house'. I know that this isn't a given for ALL kids (I know I wasn't a girly girl when I was little!) but generally it's something you see.

BUT

Humans have kind of gone beyond our natural urges, functions and biology. Our developments in science mean that we can make a family in whatever the hell way we want to; adoption, fertility drugs, abortion, surrogate mothers, etc without having to rely too much on something as simple as our bodies responding to years of inbuilt instinct.

It's easy to forget that this scientific advancement is still relatively new, and it wasn't that long ago that the average mother would have been as young as ten.

YOU SEE

Humans have much longer life spans than they did back then. A few hundred years ago you may have been lucky to live to reach anywhere between thirty and fifty, and the science relating to families and fertility was nowhere near as advanced as today, so naturally the biological order was relied upon and respected, meaning younger mothers. Our life spans now are longer and our medicine so advanced to the point that we no longer have to rely on our bodies alone to know when we can/should reproduce. This is why at some point in time modern humanity decided to let kids be kids and allow them to retain their innocence for as long as possible before they naturally began to reject it and embrace adulthood.

THEREFORE

Modern humans don't bang kids, and it's become wrong on so many levels to do so due to our natural advancement as a species. If science/our progress ever fell apart and backtracked for whatever reason and lifespans became shorter, then naturally the age of consent/acceptable parenting age will become younger as it's the most logical thing to do to ensure the continuation of the species.

The age of consent in the UK is sixteen, but in my opinion teens will be teens and will do as they will amongst themselves. I'm personally glad that it is what it is, I think it's about right.

 

[Dudeofteenage]

It's 14 where I live. It doesn't seem to have led to rampant immorality or child abuse, but I can't say I've gone looking for either.

 

[CatParty]

It's 14 where I live

gross!

 

[PantsOfDesire]

This is basically the problem with AoC laws. No matter where you draw the line, you're going to prohibit things that probably aren't terribly harmful while also not preventing things that are, for instance, the especially naive and pliable 19 year old and similar examples.

There is one reason and one reason only for having a bright line rule at a specific age, and that is that it is easy to administer. Is the person above or below the age in question? Case closed. It puts the onus of making damn sure, at peril of prison, on the elder partner.

That's not perfect, but it's acceptably efficient.

It's definitely a workable approach. Let's say someone is having sex with a 14-year-old. Does the age of the person in question make a difference? Sure, it does. If that person is 16 then that's not a big gap, and I'd argue they're doing what teenagers are driven to do. Now what if that person is 30? I think we'd hold the 30-year-old to a higher standard. It's an arbitrary thing, yet the two situations are quite different. I'd say AoC laws make sense, with the idea being they should protect minors from being exploited. With adults we should assume informed agency unless there are very specific reasons to think otherwise, such as if one part is of legal age but mentally, and quite obviously, of a far younger mental age.

 

[KFC]

Age of Consent for Popeye's employees: never