Child consent has always confused me. A child:
Gets spanked? We frown, but, legal.
Is forced to attend school or fucking else
Not allowed to bone 35 year old.*
Maybe allowed to bone 18 year old*
Probably allowed to bone other child*
*Even if child's experience is the same
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I do not get standards around children consenting to sex. It's fine if it's with another kid roughly their own age, but it's predatory if done with someone too much older. I have the 'ick' factor myself to large age gaps, but I don't understand *why*. What does 'predatory' mean?
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Not to mention: Get drafted at 18, spend 2 years in a POW camp, get arrested for underage drinking when celebrating your return.
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You can have a girl legally do porn for two years, retire, get married and have a child, and then violate the law by drinking a glass of wine on her wedding anniversary.
But yknow, MORAL OUTRAGE
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As someone who started having sex at 12 with boys & men of varying ages, I wonder about this. Should I feel guilty now that I'm an adult, or is it okay that it doesn't feel icky, or even that I'm aroused when I reflect on the emotional memory from when my sexuality was forming?🤔
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As someone that started sex at age 8 & was the instigator with females & males 98% of the time (was never forced) I never saw anything wrong with it all as long as no one forced or hurt me Though that said I can see why the laws are there for those that aren't sexually aware yet.
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The structure of the age of consent is generally around the idea that a younger person is usually unable to comprehend the emotional impact of sexual activity, and someone older may take advantage of this. 1/?
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However, we also recognise that puberty and sexual attraction begins much earlier than emotional maturity, thus experimenting with peers forms part of one's progression and maturation during adolescence. 2/?
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With that in mind, it is important that we don't allow this maturation period to be warped by someone far more mature manipulating the adolescent for whatever gain. To allow that would be to allow a child to grow up with a... 3/?
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... poor understanding of balanced relationships, making them far more vulnerable to abuse not only then, but throughout their life. This is especially important during early-mid teens, which is why statutory rape is a thing, 4/?