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What's your gender? || In hindsight, was there any point before the age of 18 where you feel like you could have meaningfully consented to sex with someone 12 years older?

male | yes
53%
male | no
33.8%
female | yes
4.2%
female | no
8.9%

5,535 votesFinal results

1:48 AM · Feb 1, 2022

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Unsurprising for a libertarian, I answered female/yes (by far the smallest category, holy shit). I'm intrigued by all the female/no responses.

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Legal age of consent in NZ is 16 so ymmv

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It's 16 in the majority of the US, too. Most Americans appear to be ignorant of this fact though.

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Saw that coming

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𝔞𝔟𝔰𝔬𝔩𝔲𝔱𝔢 𝔟𝔬𝔫𝔡 𝔰𝔩𝔦𝔭𝔭𝔢𝔯

@losingcontrol23

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did 22 and 36, and did not experience it as different from 16 and 30 ticked male on a coinflip

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Male/yes, but if the age had been 16 I'd have had real trouble deciding whether to answer yes or no. But by 17, yeah, I think I'd have been fine with it.

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Female here thinking that if I was 17 and the person was 29 they don't have it together enough so nope

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goblin à la mode

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i don't think it woul'd've been *less* meaningfully consensual than when i was in my early/mid 20s

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@Entengummitiger

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I was a horny bumbling idiot at 17, and I was still a horny bumbling idiot at 19

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No, but I think meaningful consent is an oxymoron. You can't appreciate the gravity of consent until you have a lifetime of perspective on it.

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