Age of consent
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The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. Consequently, an adult who engages in sexual activity with a person younger than the age of consent is unable to legally claim that the sexual activity was consensual, and such sexual activity may be considered child sexual abuse or statutory rape. The person below the minimum age is regarded as the victim, and their sex partner is regarded as the offender, unless both are underage. The purpose of setting an age of consent is to protect an underage person from sexual advances.
The term age of consent rarely appears in legal statutes.
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See also
- Adult film industry regulations
- Age disparity in sexual relationships
- Age of accountability
- Age of candidacy
- Age of Consent Act, 1891 (British India)
- Age of consent reform (UK)
- Age of majority
- Age of reason (canon law)
- Child sexual abuse
- Comprehensive sex education
- Convention on the Rights of the Child
- Emancipation of minors
- Fitness to plead, law of England and Wales
- French petition against age of consent laws
- Legal age
- Mature minor doctrine
- Minors and abortion
- Sexual Morality and the Law
- Sex-positive movement
- Sodomy law
- The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon
- Youth
- Youth suffrage
- Youth rights
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