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Age of Consent
(redirected from Age of consent for sex)

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The age at which a person may marry without parental approval. The age at which a female is legally capable of agreeing to sexual intercourse, so that a male who engages in sex with her cannot be prosecuted for Statutory Rape.

A person below the age of consent is sometimes called an infant or minor.

age of consent n. (See: legal age, majority)
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Byline: MIRIAM STOPPARD Lowering the age of consent for sex would be a disaster I can't believe that lowering the age of consent for sex is a topic up for debate on BBC radio tomorrow.
HEALTH; Dear Miriam by The Mirror (London, England)
Right now, the constitution sets the age of consent for sex for an unmarried woman at 14.
What You Need to Know About Proposed SC Constitutional Amendments by Robert Kittle / WSPA - Spartanburg/Greenville, SC
The legal age of consent for sex is 16, which means that the act between the minor and the 29-year-old can only be described as rape since consent is not even raised.
Police search for man who had sex with girlfriend's underage daughter by Cyprus Mail (Cyprus)
 
 
 
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