Legal Age Of Consent For Sex.

First of all, you have conceeded two arguments that I make above that I believe help amplify my arguments, they were: "This also begs the question of proof? How can you prove that anyone under the age of 18 is having sex? Only those who got caught would be punished. What would happen, would parents have to test their children for unfamiliar DNA to see if they are having sex or not? This could increase paranoia and hurt familial relations." This argument helps show that it is pointless to raise the age, because it is hard to prove who is having sex. I am sure there are thousands of cases of unreported sex crimes that deal with the age of concent. Also, you do not answer my familial relations argument, which means you could make things more tenuous with families. Secondly, "I believe raising the age would only result in more minors having sex, which may seem to make things worse in your eyes. This is empirically proven when both the age to drink and smoke have been raised. These ages go up, and more minors engage in these activities to rebel. And if minors are not responsible enough to say yes to sex, whats next? Do we take their ability to drive away? Maybe they are not responsible enough to drive, because that could threaten lives of others." You say statistically minors are irresponsible, but there is no warrant to that, it is impossible to use statistics to evaluate someones psychological condition using a subjective means of evaluating maturity. Also, theories of risk homeostasis and the examples I used above prove that when raising an age or making an activity harder to access people are more likely to partake, which means you still run the risk of increasing sex. Now, I will answer your arguments. You basically spend your last post clarifying what you want to do, and giving me a lesson in sex law, however you never make an argument. I would agree that 15 year olds having sex with an adult may be problematic, but what happens to someone who is 18 and someone who is almost 18 who has sex? According to your interpretation taht would be statutory rape because one is of consentual age and the other is not. I believe this is a ludicrous distinction, because as soon as you turn 18 the maturity gene doesnt magically turn on in your head, you can be more mature at a young age, which is another one of my arguments that you conceede. Finally, you concede my alternate solution, the way to help minors "mature" is through education. Your solution of rasing the age is merely a constructed straw man trying to divert education away from the real issue. I will remind you of what I said before: We tell our children that you shouldnt have sex until they are married, nothing but abstinence is preeched to the youth. I believe a better form of education that assists those who do wish to engage in sex would have numerous benefits, because they would know how to have safer sex, which would alleviate some of the "mistakes" or "problems" that come from sex." Only allowing for more education would help minors mature and make better decisions. I believe the voters should prefer my arguments because I have actually decided to engage your statements, and you spent the last post merely discussing what statutory rape is. I believe that your solution is problematic and uses something that is impossible to assess...maturity. It is for these reasons I believe that I am correct.