I suppose I assumed you were defending the position when you were merely defining it. My mistake there. As a USican we also have really weird age of consent law

I suppose I assumed you were defending the position when you were merely defining it. My mistake there. As a USican we also have really weird age of consent laws where it's like "16 is okay for everything, but you have to be 18 to document it, and if one of you is over 18 then the other has to be over 18 unless you're close to over 18 (the definition of "close to" being something that varies state by state) or my personal favorite which is that in many states there are no age restrictions to marriage if the minor's parents consent. I just wanted to focus on this one because at the bottom of it is an effort to make it illegal to follow the law but in a cheeky way. That, I think, is the part that UK culture has that US doesn't. As a rule we're generally encouraged to find ways to adhere to the letter of the law but not the spirit, it's considered clever.