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Should the US Age of Consent be raised to 21?
Dear Editor, kids these days don't deserve to have sex until they're at least 21. Also, they should stop playing so much loud hip-hop music and get a job!
18 years old is perfectly reasonable.
What, are you nuts? 18 is bad enough. If anything, AOC should be brought back down to 16 (Mods please fwd the list of users who pick this option to the FBI).
What did we tell you about lurking moar, Applewhite?
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Moola
Aug 16, 2006

Charles Bukowski posted:

I'm of the more insane opinion that everyone should be sterilized a birth then unsterilized at 21 when they pass a competency exam. Age of consent can remain the same at 18, but if kids gently caress up like they're wont to do, the consequences won't be so dire.

:agreed:

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Charles Bukowski
Aug 26, 2003

Taskmaster 2023 Second Place Winner

Grimey Drawer

Applewhite posted:

Hmm. I find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

Sadly if the day comes where we're mature enough to make this kind of decision, we'll have invented those holosex crowns like in Demolition Man and the old fashioned hunka chunka horizontal mambo will be a thing of the past.

SopWATh
Jun 1, 2000
Your mom is 21.

serious norman
Dec 13, 2007

im pickle rick!!!!
lol at 12 y.o in Mexico

Hopper
Dec 28, 2004

BOOING! BOOING!
Grimey Drawer

Yaldabaoth posted:

It's a waste of time to slapfight over the age of consent in the US when the more pressing issue is over 50% of the population thinks sex should be only for procreation

Considering the mental capacity of 50% of Americans, the age of consent should be never. Don't breed please

TIA

Teron D Amun
Oct 9, 2010

came here for the Goku poll option, left unsatisfied

Segata Sanshiro
Sep 10, 2011

we can live for nothing
baby i don't care

lose me like the ocean
feel the motion

:coolfish:

teenagers should be allowed to have sex w/ each other just not with adults because of the power imbalance. which I'm p. sure is already how the laws work in most states

making fun things (sex, booze, weed) illegal because you don't want teenagers doing them has literally never worked, and probably makes everything worse because breakin the law is cool. age of majority for everything including sex and booze should be 18, because people are gonna have to make their mistakes and learn responsibility eventually. might as well have it happen right after high school so they'll spend fewer of their adult years being worthless inept bumblefucks

Tsinava
Nov 15, 2009

by Ralp
i think weed should be legalized and all these television shows about adults smoking weed, being socially inept and acting like teenagers in general should be put on TV too so that teenagers will watch it and decide that acting immature is uncool and start taking their adolescent lives more seriously in a very cool, hip, unironic way.

lol but
Feb 24, 2007

body is a dinosaur
Slippery Tilde
age of consent should always be +1 my age as i make terrible life choices and need to be protected from myself. no sane society should let a fuckup like me wield a peen in anger

marshmallow creep
Dec 10, 2008

I've been sitting here for 5 mins trying to think of a joke to make but I just realised the animators of Mass Effect already did it for me

Charles Bukowski posted:

I'm of the more insane opinion that everyone should be sterilized a birth then unsterilized at 21 when they pass a competency exam. Age of consent can remain the same at 18, but if kids gently caress up like they're wont to do, the consequences won't be so dire.

"It's not our fault that uggos can't have babies; it's their fault they can't pass the tests!"

TOILETLORD
Nov 13, 2012

by XyloJW
anyone got the picture from tennesse, that has the 12 year old girl holding her new born baby girl with her, mom, grandma, and great grandma,and i think great great grandma all in the same picture.

DeepQantas
Jan 13, 2008

Ah, to be a Hero... Keeping such company...

LifeSizePotato posted:

as i've gotten older, the thought of a 16-year-old piloting a 4000lbs of metal at 70mph has gotten more unsettling
Not to mention what could happen when they start driving a car.

Bulgogi Hoagie
Jun 1, 2012

We
I live in a country in which the age of consent is 16 and regularly visit another country in which the age if consent is also 16. having sex when I was 17 was pretty rad so I think this is a great thing

Al Harrington
May 1, 2005

I used to be an adventurer like you, then I took an arrow in the eye

TOILETLORD posted:

anyone got the picture from tennesse, that has the 12 year old girl holding her new born baby girl with her, mom, grandma, and great grandma,and i think great great grandma all in the same picture.

I thought this was in england

SirDan3k
Jan 6, 2001

Trust me, you are taking this a lot more seriously then I am.
Old enough to die for your country old enough for front or back entry.

GORDON
Jan 1, 2006

by Fluffdaddy

LifeSizePotato posted:

as i've gotten older, the thought of a 16-year-old piloting a 4000lbs of metal at 70mph has gotten more unsettling

I think the drinking age should be 16 and the driving age 25.

Voting maybe 28.

Roy
Sep 24, 2007
I had gay sex at 15 and now I'm not gay.

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy

GORDON posted:

I think the drinking age should be 16 and the driving age 25.

Voting maybe 28.

This is good, and then you lose your voting license at 60 and driving license at 70

Ocean Book
Sep 27, 2010

:yum: - hi
sex is a bourgeois conspiracy

Liquid Penguins
Feb 18, 2006

by Cowcaster
Grimey Drawer
Age of consent is lower in countries where the average life expectancy is 20. Stay the gently caress away from those places. Thank you for the handy map.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

We should follow Saudi Arabia's rules. You can gently caress anyone you want, but you better be married to that person.

Korthal
May 26, 2011

This includes farm animals.

Dick Fagballzson
Sep 29, 2005
The age of consent being 21 would make college a really boring place, instead of the non-stop fuckfest it is now for a lot of people.

ziasquinn
Jan 1, 2006

Fallen Rib

Applewhite posted:

I think military and voting should be raised to 21 as well, but that's a topic for a different thread.

additionally you lose the right to vote at 60.

qtiyd

Kyrie eleison
Jan 26, 2013

by Ralp

Jerry Mumphrey posted:

lol @ Yemen. "9 is cool, but 8? That's just gross!"

it's because the Prophet Muhammad had sex with his 9 year old wife

BONE DOG
Jun 7, 2009

by Fluffdaddy
Sixteen is good

Decebal
Jan 6, 2010

Kyrie eleison posted:

it's because the Prophet Muhammad had sex with his 9 year old wife

it's ok he allowed her to bring her toys in the bedroom (pbuh)

sofokles
Feb 7, 2004

Fuck this
Only accountants should be sexing

Edit : chartered accountants

sofokles fucked around with this message at 20:03 on Sep 2, 2014

Jerry Mumphrey
Mar 11, 2004

by zen death robot

(and can't post for 4 years!)

Kyrie eleison posted:

it's because the Prophet Muhammad had sex with his 9 year old wife

wow, we get away with posting a lot of stuff on the somethingawful.com forums considering the prophet muhammad is a mod

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Dick Fagballzson posted:

The age of consent being 21 would make college a really boring place, instead of the non-stop fuckfest it is now for a lot of people.

College is supposed to be for studying and becoming an adult, not spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on behaving like an rear end. A little chastity would be good for those hooligans.

facebook jihad
Dec 18, 2007

by R. Guyovich
AOC should be about 35 actually, OP

Kelfeftaf
Sep 9, 2011

Applewhite posted:

Back in the day, age of consent was 14-16.

No, it was much worse than this. One of the goals of early feminists in the U.S. was to have the age of consent raised, because it was, like, 8 - 10 in many states.

Robo Reagan
Feb 12, 2012

by Fluffdaddy

Kelfeftaf posted:

No, it was much worse than this. One of the goals of early feminists in the U.S. was to have the age of consent raised, because it was, like, 8 - 10 in many states.

maybe aatrek was just a time traveler and didn't understand our ways

Shnag
Dec 8, 2010

"I'll be whatever I wanna do!"

Tsinava posted:

i think weed should be legalized and all these television shows about adults smoking weed, being socially inept and acting like teenagers in general should be put on TV too so that teenagers will watch it and decide that acting immature is uncool and start taking their adolescent lives more seriously in a very cool, hip, unironic way.

I've thought of using reverse psychology when I have kids in their teens to make them straight A students.

:bahgawd: "No son of mine is going to study the night before a big test! There are teens drinking and smoking pot right now at the park, you march over there and join them!"

:emo: "Shut up dad, I am going to stay home and ace the test! Gawd!"

On topic, I am not sure if there is anyway to discuss the subject in question with anyone with out it getting awkward and uncomfortable for everyone involved.

Applewhite
Aug 16, 2014

by vyelkin
Nap Ghost

Shnag posted:

On topic, I am not sure if there is anyway to discuss the subject in question with anyone with out it getting awkward and uncomfortable for everyone involved.

It's tough. Even the most reasonable and well though out argument against raising (or for lowering) the Age of Consent comes across as a disingenuous attempt to justify one's own predilections.

ArbitraryC
Jan 28, 2009
Pick a number, any number
Pillbug

Shnag posted:

On topic, I am not sure if there is anyway to discuss the subject in question with anyone with out it getting awkward and uncomfortable for everyone involved.
Age of consent laws are pretty much possible to discuss without everyone questioning your motives. When the topic comes up sometimes I wonder if exploring sexuality is just a thing kids do as part of growing up and maybe we shouldn't put such an emphasis on sex being a huge deal that will emotionally scare you if you're too young but at the same time if you make the laws loose then there will obviously be people that abuse and take advantage of them sooo what are you gonna do.

Trip Larsen
Oct 4, 2006

My great-grandfather started Larsen Pork Products with little more than three pigs and a killing hammer. Today, I'm proud to say, we kill more pigs than pig hepatitis.
so you're saying i shouldn't try and gently caress the sexy 19 year old i found on fetlife? gently caress you op

Baku
Aug 20, 2005

by Fluffdaddy
I suspect the solution is something exactly like what we have now, where it is illegal for adults to have sex with children, but with allowances (legal or social) for things like a 15 year old having sex with an 18 year old; people freak out so bad when teens get child porn charges for sexting each other and poo poo because it violates our unspoken understanding that kids will gently caress around with each other and young adults and a mixture of the current geriatrics running our judicial system dying and reform of our for-profit prison system will reduce the incidence of them as the technology becomes better understood by everyone.

Consider this the end of the debate. Thanks everyone for coming.

Modulo16
Feb 12, 2014

"Authorities say the phony Pope can be recognized by his high-top sneakers and incredibly foul mouth."

Applewhite posted:

Age of Consent is a somewhat arbitrary number. While it depends partially upon the onset of puberty, it has much more to do with societal standards of "emotional maturity." Currently, 18 is, for the most part, the age at which American society recognizes an individual has probably achieved that required level of emotional maturity.

Back in the day, age of consent was 14-16. That might have been alright for a time when it was also okay for kids to bring guns to school because there was a real possibility they might have to defend themselves from a hostile animal or Native American on their way back home. It also made a little bit of sense because you had to start having kids super early because 70% of them would die of dysentery before the age of 2.

A little later, the child mortality rate got better and age of consent was raised to 18 (in most states). That's worked out okay up to this point, especially back when 18 year olds were going off to fight and die in Europe and Vietnam.

Back when I was 18, I agreed with the assessment that I was mature enough to handle sex. However, looking back as I've grown older, I've come to realize that all teenagers are immature, stupid little shits (especially millenialls) and that any age that ends in "teen" doesn't have anywhere near the required emotional maturity to have sex. Twenty year-olds are basically teenagers anyway so I say to Hell with it, let's just raise the age of consent to 21, right up there with the legal drinking age.

same

Edit: No goku in poll? What a loving turd you are OP.

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Kempo Yellow Belt
Jan 5, 2012
Fun Shoe


e: gently caress it.

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