Should Be Lower The Age Of Consent To 15 ?

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-24976929

I can't really make my mind up on this one. If 10,000's of 15 years olds are having sex and we can't seem to stop them, perhaps it shouldn't be a crime. But what of the 14 years olds ? Will there be a campaign in another few years to make that the age of consent ?

[grumpy01]

Liked the joke Eddie but it really does highlight the problem.I think the age limit should still be 16.

[FredPuli43]

Mikey we do have an offence of "statutory rape" but we don't call it that. Rape is non -consensual sexual intercourse. We say that someone under age is not capable of giving consent, whether they think they are or not.

[mikey4444]

Thanks Fred !

[FredPuli43]

That is not to say that someone who uses violence, or fear of it, to have intercourse with a fifteen year-old can say that all they did was have intercourse with an underage girl, of course. They face life imprisonment, just as any rapist of an adult would,

[emmie]

no.