Name: Anonymous 2005-11-06 5:03
Why not propose a scheme along these lines? The first number is the age of one partner, and the range of numbers is the range of people of a certain age who can legally have sex with a person of first. It goes for any combination or number of sexes.
14: 11-17
15: 12-18
16: 12-24
17: 12-25
18-21: 14-up
21: 15-up
The thing that really bugs society is the whole ADOLESCENCE/children question around the consent laws. In theory, we have no immediate moral problem with a 25 year old fucking an 80 year old, since both of them have made the mystical transition into adulthood. However, we say that a 40 year old and a ten year old is RIGHT OUT. To quantify the ages so precisely around adolescence seems strange, as well. To accomodate this, we could have less nasty non-jail sentences (seeing a shrink/community service) for, for example, an 18 year old tapping a 13 year-old), all the way up to whatever age is right-out. Send a 25 year old who got with an 8 year old to jail. The process of fixing the age cutoffs could be helped by the psychological establishment.
14: 11-17
15: 12-18
16: 12-24
17: 12-25
18-21: 14-up
21: 15-up
The thing that really bugs society is the whole ADOLESCENCE/children question around the consent laws. In theory, we have no immediate moral problem with a 25 year old fucking an 80 year old, since both of them have made the mystical transition into adulthood. However, we say that a 40 year old and a ten year old is RIGHT OUT. To quantify the ages so precisely around adolescence seems strange, as well. To accomodate this, we could have less nasty non-jail sentences (seeing a shrink/community service) for, for example, an 18 year old tapping a 13 year-old), all the way up to whatever age is right-out. Send a 25 year old who got with an 8 year old to jail. The process of fixing the age cutoffs could be helped by the psychological establishment.