Graded Age of Consent Laws

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.

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pregnancy is a risk of sex between a man(boy) and woman(girl).  both options i specified are possible, and if two people have sex they should acknowledge the risks thereof.  i'm not trying to 'imply' or 'justify' anything, merely adding an extra perspective to the situation.

regardless of what i think about the two people involved themselves, the welfare of the potential child must be accounted for.  he/she often ends up being a victim, and is the only one involved who doesn't actually get a say in the situation.

responsible sex involves both participants being willing and able to support a child.  condoning minors to have sex with each other before they can support a child, while outright forbidding more responsible people from having sex with minors just because of the age difference, i consider that abominable.