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  • In June 2015, the Nigerian Senate inadvertently passed a law lowering the age of consent to

  • 11-years-old. It was amongst a rapidly passed series of bills creating harsher penalties

  • for child molesters, but in doing so also accidentally redefined the age of consent.

  • So how do countries decide what it should be? What is the age of consent?

  • Well, the age of consent is the age at which a person is legally considered to have the

  • autonomy to consent to sex. Consent around the world ranges from 12 to 21 in most countries.

  • But there are also a number of mitigating factors. These include the type of sex act,

  • the genders involved, how close the two ages are, and whether or not one person is in a

  • position of power. Traditionally, however, the age of consent was pegged to the age of

  • puberty, and was also the age one could get married. As early as 700 BC in Greece, it

  • was recommended that wives should be about five years post-puberty. The earliest recorded

  • law on the matter was from 1275 in England, and referred to the minimum age of marriage

  • as 12.

  • Today, consent laws are enacted as protective barriers for the more vulnerable parts of

  • the population, namely children. However, the idea ofchildhoodas opposed to

  • adulthoodonly came around during the late 18th century. Before this, children were

  • largely treated like small adults, with no particular rights to protect what we now consider,

  • childhood innocence”.

  • But the difference between maturity, puberty, and adulthood are usually thought to be distinct

  • from each other. The US, for example, uses the termminorto delineate the age

  • of majority as well as consent. In most states the age of consent is 16. But states like

  • Colorado even say that a minor under 14 can have consent as long as there is less than

  • a four-year age difference. Other countries simply say that reaching puberty is old enough,

  • as is the case in Nayarit (NYE-ya-REET), Mexico and Yemen (YEH-mun).

  • But the general historic trend amongst western countries is to continually raise the age

  • of consent, while removing ambiguities associated with gender or sexual act. Up until 2003,

  • in a number of US states, homosexual acts had a higher age of consent than heterosexual

  • acts. And until 2008, South Carolina’s age of consent for girls was 14, while for boys

  • it was 16.

  • So what should the age of consent be? Well, the only real commonality around the world

  • is to wait at least until a few years past the onset of puberty. But even that doesn’t

  • address the idea of childhood versus adulthood, and subsequent mental maturity, which neuroscientists

  • say doesn’t occur until age 25. Moreover, studies have shown that nowadays girls hit

  • puberty at 13, as opposed to 16 in the 1900s. Simply put, just because youre 18, or youve

  • gone through puberty, doesn’t mean that sexual contact is non-damaging.

  • If you want to learn more about how the government gets involved in your sex life, make sure

  • you check out our full video. There’s a link in the description if youre on your

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什麼是同意年齡? (What Is The Age Of Consent?)

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