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Resources: Age Of Consent

International

Age of Consent - Avert
This table lists different countries around the world, and shows the ages at which people of different sexualities can legally have sex.
Age of Consent - Interpol
Legislation of the member countries of the International Criminal Police Organization (INTERPOL) on child sex abuse
Age of Consent - Wikipedia
Extensive Wikipedia article on the AOC. Like all Wikipedia articles it might contain inaccurasies.
Consent to Sexual Relations
An important investigation of consent to sex that contains many interesting and insightful arguments and does a nice job of distinguishing the considerations that are relevant to moral and legal consent.
Gay Law Net
Information resource on worldwide gay laws.
Sex and Marriage
An Introduction to The Cultural Rules Regulating Sexual Access and Marriage.

Canada

Age, sex, consent -- and the facts
Illogical arguments and an intellectual gag reflex should not figure in tampering with the Criminal Code.
Sexual age of consent raised to 16
News article by The Canadian Press.
Sweet 16
Raising the age of consent means serious questions about sex, teens and the government.

Czech Republic

First new criminal code since 1950s thrown out after meeting resistance across political spectrum
Age Of Consent not lowered in Czech criminal code.

United Kingdom

Gay consent at 16 becomes law
In 2000 the UK finally gave gay men and lesbians the same sexual rights as heterosexuals.
Plan to drop age of consent rejected
The Scottish government refuses to decriminalise sex between 13 to 15-year-olds.
The Last Taboo?
Gay rights activist and theoretician Peter Tatchell argues that both conservative and liberal perceptions of sexuality are culturally narrow, and that the most important questions are those which few dare to ask.

USA

Racism, Justice and Age-of-Consent Laws in America
America has long been scarred by racially-motivated miscarriages of justice, especially those rooted in white fear of interracial sex between a black man and a white woman. The case of Genarlow Wilson recalls this long history of injustice.
When the Law is Fiction
The very term "age of consent" suggests that those under an arbitrarily-chosen age are incapable of signaling their willingness and thus are "raped" whenever being sexual.

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