An Intellectual Argument for Abolishing Age of Consent Laws

[Zenaan Harkness]

  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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