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I couldn't agree more. I've long said that it's insane that the law can say that someone is not mature enough to consent to sex, but is mature enough to commit

I couldn't agree more. I've long said that it's insane that the law can say that someone is not mature enough to consent to sex, but is mature enough to commit statutory rape. The idea that two teenagers of say 14 and 15 who consensually go with their natural urges can then be both put on a sex offenders register that will affect them negatively for the rest of their lives is absolutely insane and proof of a fundamentally broken system.

henrikschroder 9y ago
(I agree, just piling on with more perspectives) Where I'm from the age of consent is 15, but the law also explicitly states that there is no crime if the age difference is small. So in your example, if the two kids are fine with it, nothing would happen, not even if any of their parents were screaming bloody murder. Were not exactly lacking blueprints of sane legislation in this area, or lacking datapoints on how different ages of consent affect different societies. Why some places persist in prosecuting kids who have consensual sex with each other is just baffling to me.