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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. |
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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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