An Intellectual Argument for Abolishing Age of Consent Laws
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Across the world, there are various laws regulating the age at which a
female can legally make the decision to have sex. The age is entirely
arbitrary, and ranges from as low as 12 to as high as 19, depending on the
location. Generally in the developed world, 16 is the accepted norm.
The fact that it fluctuates so much between locations goes to prove that it
is without any biological basis. It is visibly evident that there is no
biological difference between a girl of 15 years and 11 months and a girl of 16
years.
Making the situation even more ridiculous is the fact that a girl is indeed
legally allowed to have sex with boys her own age or younger before she reaches
the magic number. Thus it is that she is considered to be entirely capable of
issuing consent to a man, it is simply that she is not capable of issuing
consent to an older man.
The final layer of absurdity is that it is not the girl who is punished for
engaging in the illicit act, but the man whom she has targeted to loose her
wiles upon. What this creates is a situation where a girl can target a man for
seduction, lie about her age, and get him locked up. Furthermore, governments
can potentially entrap a man with a fully developed girl of 15 years and eleven
months, sending her to seduce him and then arresting him on crimes against
consent.
What exactly is this “consent,” which is so capable of being twisted into
various shapes in order to criminalize men?
The legal definition of the term is this:
Voluntary Acquiescence to the proposal of another; the act or result of
reaching an accord; a concurrence of minds; actual willingness that an act or
an infringement of an interest shall occur.
So, in theory, a woman is incapable of acquiescing to a proposal of sex
from a man – but only an older man – until she reaches the mature age of 16 (or
whatever the age might be in your region).
[A] frightening thing is that the concept of “age of consent” assumes that
there is ever any age at which a woman is capable of making informed and
responsible decisions about something as serious as sexual activity.
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