Raise the Age of Consent

Eighteen-Year-Olds Are Still Teenagers

Published on June 5, 2004 By messybuu In Misc

I've been downloading tons of pornography lately, much of it being "barely legal", and I've realized something: eighteen-year-olds are too young to do this shit! After all, some of them are still in high school, and it's not as if they have much experience as adults, since they've just become adults. Therefore, I propose that we raise the age of consent to twenty-one.

Eighteen-year-olds will still have all the other rights they already have, but they'll have to wait until they're twenty-one to star in pornography and have sex along with gambling and drinking. Not only is the maturity gap between eighteen and twenty-one substantial, but by twenty-one, they will have experienced three years of life as an adult and can reasonably make a mature decision concerning sex and porn. Some of the eighteen-year-olds in pornography haven't even lived an entire week as an adult.

Would you want your daughter to star in a pornographic movie with sleazy men on her eighteenth birthday when she hasn't even experienced one day of adulthood? At least at twenty-one, she'll have become a full-grown adult possibly with a job and/or college and a place of her own.

Comments

JeremyG

on Jun 05, 2004

ummmm

6969jimbo6969

on Jun 05, 2004

Youngsters will run you out of town, sirrah! I mean, even in Nigeria, Iran, Saudi Arabia, places that still practice STONING for sex, kids are ready to go to war against their own governments for any policy so stupid as to say, 'thou shalt not have sex.' I'd be with the kiddos, of course, in bidding you a fond farewell. If you don't like human sexuality, you can find other cultures who are much more thoroughgoing in their annihilation of the erotic than is America. Here we manage it both ways.

What I say is, lower the age of consent, and start to really teach the fundamentals of human sexuality and psychology to our chilfen, instead of the noisome pap and indelibly dry 'biology' that now pass for the 'birds and the bees.' As to porn, no participation in any commercial venture like that should be available for anyone younger than something akin to the drinking age, enlist in the army age, etc. From my viewpoint, anyone who might---primarily for economic reasons---enlist in a military machine that might ground her or him up as easily as meat, should also have the option of selling her or his body in a subtly different way.

So, in this limited sense, sure! Raise the age of consent. Just make sure that people can't train as killers and cannon fodder at any younger age than that.

BigDreamer415

on Jun 05, 2004

Or how about we ban all porn? That would solve the problem pretty well, I think.

~Sarah

Joe98

on Jun 05, 2004

Or how about we ban all porn? That would solve the problem pretty well, I think.

Ahww Man.....

Sir Peter Maxwell

on Jun 05, 2004

Or how about we ban all porn? That would solve the problem pretty well, I think.

Governments don't go around banning multi-billion dollar industries just because it is morally questionable, too many rich people have an interest in producing pornography.

messybuu

on Jun 05, 2004

The policy's been active for some time, and kids haven't gone to war over it, even if it is closer to the practice of Nigeria, Iran, and Saudi Arabia, with the age of consent being at 18, than with more peaceful countries such as Canada, which have it at 14.

What I say is, lower the age of consent, and start to really teach the fundamentals of human sexuality and psychology to our chilfen, instead of the noisome pap and indelibly dry 'biology' that now pass for the 'birds and the bees.' As to porn, no participation in any commercial venture like that should be available for anyone younger than something akin to the drinking age, enlist in the army age, etc. From my viewpoint, anyone who might---primarily for economic reasons---enlist in a military machine that might ground her or him up as easily as meat, should also have the option of selling her or his body in a subtly different way.

So, in this limited sense, sure! Raise the age of consent. Just make sure that people can't train as killers and cannon fodder at any younger age than that.

I'd actually be all right with raising the age in which one can join the military.

I could also see lowering the age of consent, but what would you lower it to? If I thought of lowering the age of consent, I'd lower it to 14. After all, Canada allows fourteen-year-olds to have sex with other non-minors, and Canada's doing well for itself.

messybuu

on Jun 05, 2004

Or how about we ban all porn? That would solve the problem pretty well, I think.

~Sarah

Without porn though, I'd be evil!

Gene Nash

on Jun 05, 2004

Would you want your daughter to star in a pornographic movie with sleazy men on her eighteenth birthday when she hasn't even experienced one day of adulthood?

I wouldn't want my daughter starring in a pornographic movie with sleazy men at any age!

on Jun 05, 2004

Or how about we ban all porn? That would solve the problem pretty well, I think.

Not quite. Some people would go out and find unwilling or willing people to take pictures anyway.

Better leave it legit than illegal.

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