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fandomsecrets2014-03-21 07:06 pm
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[ SECRET POST #2635 ]
⌈ Secret Post #2635 ⌋
Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.
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[Casshern (film)]
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[cosplay, Anthony Misiano]
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03. http://i.imgur.com/4s3vCwo.png
[link for nudity/etc. naked mpreg snape with boobs.]
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04. http://i.imgur.com/aQi1eUV.png
[link for nudity (OP requested it; not really sexual though. probably would've been ok, considering the one below ↓)]
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08. [posted twice]
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[Josh Radnor]
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[ ----- SPOILERY SECRETS AHEAD ----- ]
10. [SPOILERS for Sherlock]
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11. [SPOILERS for Grimm]
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12. [SPOILERS for Twisted]
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13. [WARNING for ephebophilia]
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14. [WARNING for suicide]
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Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
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Either way, this is still a better situation than most countries in which you see ages of consent as low as 13*, which tend to be places like central Africa and Europe and parts of South America - the same parts of the world with particularly pointed reputations for things like sex trafficking, child sexual abuse, and child brides...second only to the parts of the world which effectively don't have ages of consent to begin with.
And while it's only one year off, 14 is still not really as young as 13 - pushing it, certainly, but I will agree that's when teenagers at least start to handle more rational though processes and bigger problems that include sex. And as you mentioned, there are exceptions and parameters which Google-fu tells me raises the age of consent back up in the most concerning situations to begin with, as with the other European countries with lower ages of consent - especially when combined with laws about how much ignorance of the younger participants' age can factor into a legal defense, which Italy seems to have quite a bit of.
I think perhaps one point I should clarify is this: when I said this is a situation in which correlation =/= causation, I am serious about that. My biggest issues with the ages of consent are not just the direct ramification of kids as young as that AoC having sex, but also how - from the legal standpoint and the perspective of criminal court, prosecution, and human rights violations investigations - very young ages of consent tend to open the doors to a whole host of other problems that are often only indirectly related to legal sex to begin with. At that point, even the one year gap between 14 and 13, or 13 and 12, can make a huge difference, as well as whether or not these are hardlines or malleable. Another quick search suggests that countries with ages of consent around 14-17 usually couple those with various expansions, exceptions, and parameters to minimize the potential for abuse. Countries with lower ages of consent or no age of consent for sex? Not so much, and usually the places with much higher records of sexual abuse of both children and adults/adult women.
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(Anonymous) 2014-03-23 10:08 pm (UTC)(link)Under 13: not legal.
13: legal only if the partner isn't older than 16.
14-15: legal if the adult doesn't represent Authority to the teen, such as a parent, teacher, priest, etc. etc. If you have the hots for your friend's 25-year-old cousin you saw at a party, he's not Authority to you, he's just a random hot guy so he's not committing any crime.
16-17: legal even with aforementioned figures as long as it's a consensual act and not something obtained via abuse of authority. Well, except the parent, parent/sibling incest's not legal. Don't know how adoptive parents figure into this since they're not blood-related.
18 and older: 100% legal, yo.
Prostitution and pornography: must be 18 or older.
Marriage: must be 18 or older, though courts can make an exception for 16-year-olds if there are serious enough reasons to and the 16-year-old is asserted mature enough.
This seems far more reasonable to me than making blanket statements such as "anyone having sex with a 15-year-old is a pedophile teens aren't capable of consent".
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I honestly don't have many problems with a low age of consent for its own sake - my frustration is just that given the nature of sexuality in most of the world today, they don't really protect people enough.