12-30-2011, 06:46 PM
Here in Australia the age of consent is sixteen. I'm sixteen and my girlfriend is fifteen. It doesn't really matter if you're slightly under the AOC because at the end of the day, you really don't get in any trouble if you have sexual intercourse under the AOC because no one is really going to know about it. Your mate doesn't go to the Police and say, 'yeah look my friend is fourteen and they're going at it. Arrest them' - it doesn't happen.
If you, for whatever reason, do want to play it by the book, in my opinion, eighteen is way too old. Humans are biologically meant to mate when they hit puberty. There's no physiological reason (other than unplanned pregnancy) to prevent people from having sex younger. Proper sexual education is the problem there.
If you, for whatever reason, do want to play it by the book, in my opinion, eighteen is way too old. Humans are biologically meant to mate when they hit puberty. There's no physiological reason (other than unplanned pregnancy) to prevent people from having sex younger. Proper sexual education is the problem there.