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| | Age of consent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | The age of consent should not be confused with the age of majority or age of criminal responsibility, and in some jurisdictions, the marriageable age differs from the age of consent. | | | Federal courts have upheld this law, and the US Supreme Court has refused to review it. | | | In criminal law, the age of consent (AOC) is the age at which a person is considered to be capable of legally giving informed consent to any legal contract or behavior regulated by law, including sexual acts with another person. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent
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| | Marriage Laws in the US by Age |
| | Applicants under the age of 15 with parental consent and probate court permission. | | | Idaho: If you are 16 or 17 years of age, you will need to have a certified copy or your original birth certificate, or a passport, or a driver's license or state ID card. | | | A license shall not be issued to anyone under the age of 16 without written parental consent and the written consent of a judge. |
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| | Canada's Legal Age of Consent to Sexual Activity (PRB99-3E) |
| | Consent was not specifically precluded as a defence, however, and failure to prove that the accused was more to blame than the female person could result in acquittal. | | | The exception, of course, is anal intercourse, to which unmarried persons under 18 cannot legally consent, although both the Ontario Court of Appeal(3) and the Quebec Court of Appeal(4) have struck down the relevant section of the Criminal Code. | | | In addition to supporting the retention of a "total prohibition" of sexual intercourse with female persons under the age of 14, the Law Reform Commission expressed the view that intercourse between adults and young persons under 16 should continue to be prohibited by the criminal law. |
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http://www.parl.gc.ca/information/library/PRBpubs/prb993-e.htm
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| | age of consent on Encyclopedia.com |
| | Under common law this age was 10; state statutes in the United States generally set it between 13 and 18. | | | There are different ages at which one acquires legal capacity to consent to marriage, to choose a guardian, to conclude a contract, and the like. | | | A high age of consent is a sign of civilisation |
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http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/a1/ageconse.asp
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| | STATE AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT LAWS |
| | NEW HAMPSHIRE 16 The age of sexual consent is higher at 18 if the adult is in a position of authority over the person and uses this authority to coerce the person to submit, except if between legally married spouses. | | | NOTE: In the AGE OF SEXUAL CONSENT column is the age of a person an adult 18 and over may legally have sexual contact with in that state. | | | A person 18 and older having sex with someone age 15, 16 or 17 faces a misdemeanor, punishable by up to one year in jail and a $2,500 fine. |
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| | Abuse And The Age Of Consent |
| | As the law stands now (May 2003), the legal age of consent for heterosexual sex is 16 for boys and girls. | | | And current laws are not consistent with a premise that the age of consent is based on sexual maturity. | | | But charges were not proceeded with since according to the DPP "because [I] was over 14, [my] consent was valid at common law". |
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| | BBC NEWS UK What is a 'right' age of consent? |
| | He was then jailed by a Turkish court for statutory rape, which he denied on the grounds he thought she was 15 - the legal age of consent in Turkey. | | | Romania's legal minimum age for marriage is 16. | | | In Burundi in Africa the age is decided on a region-by-region basis, while the Gulf state Oman says sexual activity is not allowed, except in legal marriage. |
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| | Age of Consent |
| | It removes the defence in court of "It can't have been rape, because the child said 'yes'!" Thus, technically, age of consent as a legal statute is, in my view, a good thing. | | | This chart is by no means definitive, by which I also mean that it has NO legal standing, and cannot be relied on as a defence in any court of law. | | | When one is over the magic age and the other under it, even by a day in either case, the older commits an offence, even if the younger person initiated and/or carried out the major part of the act |
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| | BBC News UK Q and A: The age of consent |
| | Labour MP Ann Keen introduced an age of consent amendment to the Crime and Disorder Bill. | | | In May 1996 it began hearing a case alleging that the different ages of consent breached human rights. | | | But the catalyst for action was the European Court of Human Rights. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_1045000/1045383.stm
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| | BBC News UK Politics Gay age of consent bill returns |
| | The European Commission in 1997 found the age disparity between homosexuals and heterosexual ages of consent to be a breach of the European Convention on Human Rights. | | | The case would have proceeded to the European Court if the government had not promised to change the law. | | | The reintroduction of a bill to make the law equal for gays and heterosexuals was promised after the House of Lords last year defeated the Sexual Offences (Amendment) Bill. |
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk_politics/newsid_524000/524616.stm
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| | A table of worldwide ages of consent, including US states |
| | If more than one age is given then the law within that country or state varies according to region or circumstances. | | | If you are in any doubt about the age of consent law in your region then please seek expert legal advice. | | | In particular, some countries (such as Mexico) have state laws that may overrule the federal law. |
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| | Fairness Talking Points: Age of Consent |
| | Sex with anyone under a certain age, such as thirteen, would continue to be prohibited, as it is now. | | | Graduated age-of-consent laws would simply take into consideration the age differences of the individuals involved. | | | They choose to misrepresent the facts and boil down the case by stating, "Gays want to have sex with children." |
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http://www.bluegrassfairness.org/pages/TP-ageofconsent.asp
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| | The Observer Review Sex is not just for grown-ups |
| | But if she is under 13, in which case the offence is absolute - and the maximum punishment life imprisonment - that defence doesn't apply. | | | Here, the age of consent can be a hindrance, even before the new Bill. | | | As a result of her court action, many teenagers believed that services that provided contraception would no longer be confidential. |
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http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,6903,1075746,00.html
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| | Queensland Age of Consent & legal sexual activity information pamphlet |
| | but anal sex is not legal for anyone under the age of 18. | | | Your partner must also be a willing participant and must be legally capable of giving their consent. | | | * "Consent" is a term that refers to both the willingness to do sex and the legal ability to make the decision to do so. |
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http://www.queerradio.org/AOCpamphlet.htm
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| | An Age of Consent" Symposium |
| | Everyone has tacitly assumed or explicitly stated that there is no legal protection or relief for the girl after she has reached the age of consent. | | | Janney attempts definition; for instance, he says that "an immoral act becomes criminal when done in violation of a law which defines the crime." It becomes illegal under those circumstances, but the law cannot make an act criminal which is not so per se. | | | But in the case of the age-of-consent law such individual relief would not be easy to obtain, no matter how intelligent and humane the parents or the girl might be. |
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| | Oregon Statutory Rape Law Question. - Labor Law Talk |
| | As far as I know your a minor until the age of 21, until the age of 21 you must follow your states age gap regulations. | | | There are no laws prohibiting dating for individuals of certain ages. | | | 163.345 Age as a defense in certain cases. |
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http://www.laborlawtalk.com/showthread.php?t=75475
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| | The Progressive Right: Age of Consent Debate |
| | I guess the argument by the other guys goes that the existing law banning exploitation (defined as breaching trust, involving prostitution, or involving pornography) is strong enough to protect minors from unwanted attention. | | | How can you support a bill that could criminalize kissing, for example, at any age?. | | | Updated: Interesting points over at Craig Cantin's site, regarding this very issue [Craig Cantin, Raising the Age of Consent - Green Party Position]. |
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| | Age of Consent |
| | Hopefully eventually it will be one unified number, with one unified exception, rather than a completely different law per state or country. | | | Please note that we are not legislatures, and despite reliable resources and legal advice, we cannot guarantee that these laws have not changed, however this page is updated regularly. | | | Please refer to our Terms of Service for more information about the policies regarding use of S.O.S.E.N.'s services. |
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http://www.sosen.org/legal/ageofconsent
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| | Age of Consent |
| | It is interesting that the CFAC doesn't advocate that Canadians should not be prosecuted for criminal offences until age 18. | | | Or is it because the people at question in this law are under legal voting age and not "adults"? | | | what happens if both parties are under the age of 18? |
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http://www.lawyers.ca/ycja/apr2003.htm
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| | AskOxford: age of consent |
| | • noun the age at which a person’s consent to sexual intercourse is legally valid. |
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| | CBC News: Web luring case raises age-of-consent issue |
| | The age of consent rule for those between 14 and 18 requires the court to consider whether the relationship is exploitative, including age differences and the degree of influence the older person has over the younger one. | | | Dale Eric Beckham, 31, was charged with luring a child under the age of 16 by computer, and abducting a child under the age of 16. | | | The age of consent is 17 in Texas. |
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| | BBC - Teens - Sex & Body Factfiles - Age Of Consent |
| | However, if you're a consenting couple and around the same age as each other, it's unlikely you'd be prosecuted (although if one of you is under 13 this might not be the case). | | | The age at which you can legally have sex. | | | The age of consent is there for the same reasons you need to be 17 to drive and 16 to smoke. |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/teens/lads/sexandlife/atoz/sexandbody/age_consent.shtml
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| | Age of Consent |
| | Table 1 sets out for a selection of nations the age at which persons of different sexual orientation are able to have sex legally. | | | Also in certain countries persons may participate in certain acts under certain conditions (most often legal marriage) without either they or their partners committing an offence (Age of Consent 2001). | | | It should be noted that some nations use the term "age of sexual consent"; others the "age of consent" and, in some cases, the "age below which one can be convicted of statutory rape". |
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http://www.glrl.org.au/publications/major_reports/age_of_consent/age_of_consent_07.htm
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| | 01Aug02a Peter Tatchell in The Guardian |
| | Two 14-year-olds who have a mutually agreed relationship risk maximum penalties ranging from 10 years to life imprisonment. | | | Few receive detailed safer sex advice, and most have no ready access to condoms. | | | The consent laws are, however, a wholly inadequate protection. |
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| | eclecticism: Age of consent |
| | : In Singapore, prostitution is legal, the age of consent is 16 — but oral sex is illegal. | | | It's a period piece starting Kirsten Dunst as the ill-fated queen...and the trailer is all set to New Order's 'Age of Consent'. | | | The first trailer for Marie Antoinette, a new film by Sofia Coppola. |
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http://www.michaelhanscom.com/eclecticism/2002/03/age_of_consent.html
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| | GayLawNet - GayLawNews by Subject - Age of Consent |
| | Currently the age of consent varies widely between jurisdictions. | | | (Editor's Note: The age of consent in Victoria is in fact 10 years but there must not be more than 2 years difference between the partners, which age difference also applies to persons aged from 10 to under age 16) | | | The Committee is made up of government criminal law advisors from the Commonwealth and all states and territories. |
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| | eBay - age of ..., Games, CDs items on eBay.com |
| | ADVENTURES OF BOB HOPE #98 - May 1966 Silver Age DC | | | Use of this Web site constitutes acceptance of the eBay User Agreement and Privacy Policy. | | | England in the Age of Wycliffe = 1368-1520 = Trevelyan |
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| | age of consent : Gay & Black Glossary |
| | The notion of age of consent is peculiar in that one day sex can bring a 7 year prison term, and the next day is perfectly legal. | | | In the USA, the age of consent varies state by state from 16 to 18. | | | The lowest age at which sex is legally permissible. |
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| | Age of Consent Campaign, 1886-1914, Abstract |
| | Women reformers and social purists initiated a campaign in 1885 to petition legislators to raise the legal age of consent to at least sixteen in all states in the nation, although their ultimate goal was to raise the age to eighteen. | | | American reformers were shocked to discover that the laws of most states set the age of consent at ten or twelve. | | | "Age of consent" referred in the late nineteenth century to the legal age at which a girl could consent to sexual relations. |
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http://womhist.binghamton.edu/aoc/abstract.htm
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| | First Monday: Age Of Consent - TV.com |
| | The Court ruled that yes, even the speech of a bully in a schoolyard is free speech. | | | The local court agrees to the girl's desires, and the parents appeal to the Supreme Court to overturn the judge's order. | | | The Court rules in the girl's favour and upholds the local judge's ruling. |
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http://www.tv.com/first-monday/age-of-consent/episode/109177/summary.html
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| | News - ACLU Wants to Lower Sexual Age of Consent to Thirteen - Center for Reclaiming America |
| | Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline told reporters, “The ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) states specifically in its brief that it is a constitutional right for any child age 13 and older to consent to have sex with anyone.” | | | According to the Kansas Attorney General, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) has filed a brief with a Kansas state appeals court arguing that the state’s sexual age of consent laws should be lowered to thirteen years of age. | | | Though his sentence is well within the current law dictated by the Kansas state legislature, the ACLU believes Matthew Limon should be released from prison and that the state should not show distinctions between homosexuals, heterosexuals, or those who have sex with teenagers. |
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| | Age of Consent |
| | As a result of the publicity that the Armstrong case generated, Parliament in 1885 passed the Criminal Law Amendment Act that raised the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen, strengthened existing legislation against prostitution and proscribed all homosexual relations. | | | They became involved in the campaign against the white slave trade and in 1875 the House of Commons agreed to raise the age of consent to thirteen. | | | Campaigners were not satisfied with this change and continued to argue for further reform. |
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| | Age of consent - DR1 Forums |
| | I agree with previous posts that this is probably a real problem but I also agree that it is for law makers and law enforcers to deal with the same as any other serious crime. | | | Since this has been such a large subject of discussion I looked for a web site for age of consent and sure enough; www.ageofconsent.com has a list of each state and most countries. | | | By values I must clarify that I do not imply, as some will likely interpret, that a particular age of consent demonstrates "greater" values than others. |
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| | State Marriage Statutes |
| | (x) Applicants under age 18 must state that they have had marriage counseling. | | | (r) If parties are at least 16 years of age, proof of age and consent of parties in person are required. | | | (c) (2) Younger parties may marry with parental and judicial consent. |
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| | Age of consent for gay males will be cut to 16, says Labor - smh.com.au |
| | "The effect of this bill will be to achieve consistency in penalties for child sexual assault and a uniform age of consent... | | | The Opposition Leader, John Brogden, said the Liberals would be allowed a conscience vote but the National Party leader, Andrew Stoner, said the party room had not yet decided whether it would vote as a bloc or allow a free vote. | | | The age of consent for homosexual men will be lowered to 16 but will be buffered by tough new penalties for child sexual assault by adults in positions of trust, under an overhaul of NSW sex crime laws. |
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| | Age of Consent Campaign, 1886-1914, Document List |
| | You may click here to request a free trial. | | | Document 24: Louise de Koven Bowen, "Legal Protection in Industry," 1914 | | | Document 14: Emily Blackwell, "Age of Consent Legislation," February 1895 |
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| | Age of Consent |
| | Japan- 13 nationwide, 16 to 18 in most prefectures (however, age of marriage for a female with parental approval is 16) | | | Albania-14 Argentina-15, but can be 12 in certain cases. | | | I discovered that the age of consent varies according to cultural traditions and law. |
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| | LEGAL AGE OF CONSENT (ageofconsent.com) Age du consentement à l’acte sexuel |
| | We suggest that you read the accompanying notes to any particular state or country if you are really interested. | | | Some areas call this the age of sexual consent; others the age of consent; and even others, the age at which one cannot be convicted for "statutory rape" (also age of protection and age of sexual maturity). | | | AgeOfConsent.com is a repository of both legal and commentary information on laws relating to sexual activity. |
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| | The Age of Consent by Peter Morris |
| | Can anyone consent to something on the behalf of another? | | | "If The Age of Consent had been written by the sainted Alan Bennett it would be acclaimed as a triumph" - Daily Telegraph | | | What power can anyone, a person or a community, have over the mind and life of another? |
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| | Amazon.com: The Age of Consent : The Rise of Relativism and the Corruption of Popular Culture: Books: Robert H. Knight |
| | Yet his historic survey-like description of popular culture's decline misses two key consequences of "Relativism," as a social ethos: (1) Comparativism (which neutrally treats all 'belief/opinion systems' as equally valid); and (2) Moral Legalism (which suggests that legal permissibility--and arguable legal versions of fact, however interpretive--is the ultimate moral authority. | | | Author Robert H. Knight, in his "Age of Consent," tackles a huge topic. | | | Knight, who is director of cultural studies at the Family Research Council. |
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| | UCSB's SexInfo - Age of Consent |
| | The age of consent varies from state to state. | | | Technically, it is “the arbitrary age, assigned by legislators, that define the legal time at which a person may consent voluntarily to sexual activity with another person.” This is a somewhat confusing definition, so instead it might help to think of age of consent in regards to statutory rape. | | | This means that if you are over the age of 18 and you engage in “sexual activity” with a person under the age of 18, you have committed statutory rape. |
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| | Amazon.co.uk: The Age of Consent: Books |
| | In The Age of Consent he puts the current democratic world under scrutiny having also written about this on a more detailed level in his earlier book The Captive State and makes the fact that we can even call it democratic questionable, he suggests new systems to unselected world powers such as. | | | Democracy alone has been confined to the nation state. | | | For example, he writes, "If we wish to be represented, then let us be represented, and let us no longer accept the evasions, half-measures, impediments, intermediaries and arbiters whose installation masquerades as global democratization. |
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| | RootleWeb: Age of Consent |
| | The vote was 99 for and 167 against. | | | The motion to raise the age of consent from 14 to 16 years of age was defeated today in the House. | | | If you do, I will start deleting everything you write, no matter what you have to say. |
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| | ZNet Parecon The Age of Consent |
| | But there are many lessons we can learn from the failures of our systems, and I suggest in The Age of Consent a number of safeguards which could make a world parliament radically different from national parliaments. | | | It will be published in the US next year by the New Press, under the title A Manifesto for a New World Order. | | | What I have attempted in The Age of Consent is not a final or definitive description of a new world order, but an analysis of existing patterns of power and their weaknesses, and of the means we might possess of exploiting those weaknesses to try to turn an injust world order into a just one. |
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| | Age of Consent (1969) |
| | THE AGE OF CONSENT is a film of its time but also with content explicit and exquisite for a new century audience. | | | Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Age of Consent (1969) | | | There is so much to enjoy in THE AGE OF CONSENT from Mason and Mirren's balanced careful performances to the secondary characters, mainly in the form of spectacular handsome and virile 24 year old Harold Hopkins, an Australian actor in one of his first appearances. |
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| | Guardian Unlimited The Guardian Age of consent |
| | Yet state childcare, proper paternity leave, and sexual equality are clearly far from imminent, and while the truth about fertility is sickening and unjust, the bigger shock of age- related infertility is a greater tragedy. | | | In ovum years, age 40 is a lifetime away from 35. | | | Career options for women are statistically diminished at whatever age we first give birth. |
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| | Our position on age of consent was adopted in December, 1983. | | | It should be noted that NAMBLA has taken stands on A WIDE RANGE OF ISSUES relating to individual freedom and youth liberation, in addition to those relating to youth and sexuality. |
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