The Age of Consent/Child Marriage Thread Can someone explain to me why the age of consent/Child Marriage question so Divisive? What is the argument to allow 13 yr olds to marry? What is the argument to allow them to have sex with 18+ year olds? Rocket River
Socioeconomic-cultural-religious reasons for backward poor 3rd world countries where the Industrial Revolution hasn’t hit yet. Straight ****ed up in first world countries.
https://www.newsweek.com/gop-senator-child-rape-law-utah-j-stuart-adams-2109138 An 18-year-old in Utah who was accused of having sex with a 13-year-old avoided jail after the laws governing sexual offenses were changed while his relative was president of the state Senate. Senate President J. Stuart Adams confided to legislators that the law relating to his relative's case should be reviewed in a large bill that was passed in 2024, according to a report from The Salt Lake Tribune. How does this get passed?? Rocket River
Not really coincidence that a lower age of consent corresponds to religion..... Christians like them young too.
Why Not? Someone pointed out that the GOP are the primary people who resist laws that raise these ages and I wanna know why I wanted to see if anyone had a legit GOOD REASON that they feel so negatively about raising the age of consent and marriage Honestly it make them look like the Grand Ole PDFile party Rocket River
Men see "underage" (whatever that means) women/girls as very ****able. Men hate it when other men see their "underage" daughters as ****able. It is a real conundrum.
People are talking...... being a diddler is one thing.... But I diddler with some unnatural comments about his daughter....
As a general principle, laws restricting what people do in their personal life seem like they should be exercised at the lowest effective level of government, if the government should be involved at all. There is no “right” setting of age of consent laws. They reflect cultural norms, and there is some arbitrariness to any such law. It’s one thing when we’re talking about protecting people’s rights. That’s appropriate at the federal level. But these laws aren’t that — they are actually taking away individual rights in a way we as a society deem to be acceptable to protect minors from exploitation. For those reasons, I think it’s reasonable that that these laws are localized rather than imposed at a national level.
