Article Rec
Sep. 27th, 2007 09:45 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
heidiThere was a lot of discussion this summer about stories about people who are "underage" engaging in sexual activity, and some nasty words were thrown at those who write about people under the age of 18 engaging in sexual activity, even where said people live in countries where it is (a) legal to engage in sexual activity when under the age of 18, or (b) legal to marry when under the age of 18, and (c) definitely legal to write about or draw *fictional* people under the age of 18 engaged in sexual activity.
But that's not what this post is about.
This post is about an article in Slate Magazine today on reasons as to why an age of consent exists, and reasons why it should be lowered, or at least the law should focus more on age disparity when all parties are over the age of 12, or over the age of 16.
Interesting food for thought, IMHO. I don't agree 100% with what the author is suggesting, but I think that there is definitely a need for the justice system to differentiate among situations where the parties are, say, 15 years apart, where there is a work- or school-generated power-imbalance, and where the parties are peers.
But that's not what this post is about.
This post is about an article in Slate Magazine today on reasons as to why an age of consent exists, and reasons why it should be lowered, or at least the law should focus more on age disparity when all parties are over the age of 12, or over the age of 16.
Interesting food for thought, IMHO. I don't agree 100% with what the author is suggesting, but I think that there is definitely a need for the justice system to differentiate among situations where the parties are, say, 15 years apart, where there is a work- or school-generated power-imbalance, and where the parties are peers.
