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Age of Consent
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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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And they demand action: the "right" to be married, mandated insurance benefits for "partners," anti-discrimination laws that would penalize Christian landlords and businessmen, and worst of all, the abolition of age-of-consent laws.
Wisconsin, much like the rest of the nation, was undergoing a shift in the sexual regulation of adolescent girls: the 1880s was the decade of the age-of-consent reform campaigns.
Indeed, Shanley's alleged connections to the North American Man/Boy Love Association, a group that questions age-of-consent laws and is a pariah to most gay activism, are among the most heated of all the controversies surrounding him.
 
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