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Originally Posted by mrbeast
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Originally Posted by Von Tonner
Our constitutional court is to hear argument today that the age of same-sex sexual relations be brought down from 19 years of age to 16 years of age which is the present legal age limit for hetrosexual sexual relations.
This has been brought about by a court of appeal in which a 20 year old male had a sexual relationship with an 18 year old male and was charged with rape and convicted.
I can see the logic behind the higher age limit and personally, I would argue it be higher - but what is it in other countries?
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Personally I can see no logic in having a higher age of consent for Homosexual sex than Hetrosexual sex. If a 16 year old is deemed physically and mentally mature enough to have straight sex than why should a gay 16 year old have to wait another couple of years? |
Exactly. He/she would probably do it anyway, but maybe in a more risky way. Equal rights for hetero and homo seems nothing but fair.
In Denmark the age limit is 15.
Though, theoretically a 85-year-old person may have sex with a 15-year-old, it's of course not well accepted. We recently had a case, when a 35-year-old male politician had sex with a 15-year-old girl, which he met as guest at a party for the political youth of his party. It wasn't such a wise move to do for him, but by law he didn't do anything wrong.
Something like what Skybird wrote about limits in Germany have been discussed as well, but they remain discussions whether to limit the age differences, which would only seem normal.