> In the USA and many other places we, society generally holds that, below a certain age, people are still mentally "children" and unable to evaluate certain li

> In the USA and many other places we, society generally holds that, below a certain age, people are still mentally "children" and unable to evaluate certain life decisions. You can look through some of these consent laws and tell me what that age is: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe Point is, I doubt the world's view on sex is as cut-and-dried as you present it.