I Question The Age Of Consent

Everything should be questioned.

There's a perfectly good reason to have AOCs but like all received wisdom it should be challenged and tested to see if it's still relevant. Maybe it is. But maybe it isn't.

Apart from anything else, it's so routinely and consensually flouted that having one is kind of silly.

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Khenpal1 · M

It has always been fluid , until end of 18th century it was quite low.

The Age of Consent in 18th-century England
English law in the 18th century, though these standards were true for most of the 19th century as well. These "ages of consent" were fairly common across Europe, and in the United States.

The age of consent for girls with regard to sexual intercourse was 10 – that is, sex with a girl below the age of 10 was automatically classified as rape, because girls below the age of 10 were deemed to be legally incapable of consent. The age of consent for girls with regard to marriage was 12 – that is, a girl under the age of 12 could not lawfully consent to marriage.