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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
Whatever happened to age of consent?  |
Unfortunately, it is like the legal age for drinking - it's a legal boundary to activity, not a physical one; in an ideal world, no one would drink under 18, or have intercourse under 16 (but of course, young adults can stay on at shool until 18, so the teenage pregnancies could still "legally" occur), but we don't live in an ideal world, and this is one way mitigating the actions of those not acting ideally (imho).
Of course, we could just stigmatise them, call them toe rags, and hope the problem disappears....
