Talk:Ages of consent in Europe

message: This article (not to mention the above discussion of "unfettered age of consent" whtaever that expression is meant to mean) is a complete mess, and could and should be simplified a lot by simply using a table, because:
# This is an article about Europe, therefore Council of Europe and (for EU member states) EU law and jurisprudence matter.
# Basically all European countries signed the Lanzarote Convention, therefore all are bound to make sex illegal in the cases where, even if the minor's age is above the general age of consent;
# All Cuncil of Europe countries are bound to the rule that their age of consent rules must be fully equal when it comes to opposite-sex vs. same-sex sexual acts;
# None of the Council of Europe (I hope...) or at least none of the EU/EEA countries allow things like the age of consent to be different depending on the parent's wishes, simply because among the duties a State must guarantee to its citizen and residents there is also the concept that a child is not a property of its own parents;
# I think very few countries in Europe consider marriage an exemption from the age of consent too for the same reason: the State guarantees the right of every person to mental and physical integrety, and children are people too, and being in a marriage is not relevant to this.
Touyats (talk) 09:48, 3 December 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Up until 25 Apr 2021, it , but . — Guarapiranga ☎ 03:10, 6 May 2022 (UTC)

text: Oh man, I would restore the table if I could commit to learning how. It needed to be improved, not removed. (Good rhyme, important motto.)   — TARDIS builder✉     ★       05:41, 21 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Most of the data in this article could be turned into a table. 

message: Considering that is a transcontinental country, its population and religion, and that is not even a EU member, is it right to consider Turkey a European country? Shouldn't be created a page/article regarding specifically the age of consent in Turkey? 151.68.212.204 (talk) 01:24, 17 November 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: "a page/article regarding specifically the age of consent in Turkey" You are free to create one, if you can find relevant sources. Religion is not much of a difference for Turkey, since Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Kosovo are also Muslim-majority countries in Europe. See the article on Islam in Europe. Dimadick (talk) 10:45, 19 November 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Is it right to consider Turkey an European country? 

message: This article says "In June, the Senate adopted Legislative Proposal L423/2022 regarding the amendment of the Criminal Code and the Criminal Procedure Code, which introduces an age limit (15 years) for valid consent in the case of sexual relations with minors. In the case of amendments to organic laws, the Chamber of Deputies is the decision-making chamber. The arguments for which the Chamber of Deputies must introduce 16 years as the limit of valid consent are very numerous and well-founded." It also says "Currently, there is no minimum age of the minor under which it is considered that he cannot give valid consent in the case of sexual intercourse with an adult partner or with a partner with an age difference of more than three years. This minimum age would eliminate the possibility of classifying the act as a crime of sexual intercourse with a minor and would classify it as a crime of rape." I think it's implying that there is currently no age of consent, but the proposal is to set an age of 15 (with some groups wanting an age of 16). 143.44.67.100 (talk) 21:21, 29 January 2023 (UTC)
replies: text: No. The age of consent is 16, in that it is illegal to have sex with a child under 16 (with a close in age exemption of 3 years). The discussions are about setting an age under which the sexual act is automatically classified as rape rather than sexual intercourse with a minor as it is now (Actul sexual cu un minor - Article 220 of the Penal Code). Currently there is no such age, and sexual intercourse  with a child under 16 may be classified either as rape or as illegal sexual intercourse with a minor, based on the circumstances (including the age and maturity of the child). But sex with a child under 16 is illegal, regardless of how it is classified. This is the bolded age that is shown in this article for all countries. It is not necessary for the act to be classified as rape, it is sufficient for it to be illegal. This has been already discussed on talk. 2A02:2F0F:B10E:6700:B4CE:BC19:25D0:1580 (talk) 06:22, 7 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Romania 

message: It seems shocking to me, but the source suggests so. Because the crime that regulates sexual interactions in the age range of 12 to 16 does not seem to punish sexual intercourse per se, but rather "defilement" and being "at the discretion of prosecutors and the courts", it demarcates that there is no illegality per se.
Technically, I don't see any difference between this and the cases of Portugal and Albania. Portugal has the age of consent at 14, but at the discretion and legal interpretation there can be a crime in minors under 16, if "inexperience is abused" and Albania has the age of consent at 14, but there can be a crime if "the minor lacks of sexual maturity".
So, why is it that in Portugal and Albania the age under which the invalidity of consent is presumed is delimited, but in Malta it is preserved even for a crime that requires a third element, in addition to sex and age? 2800:150:105:C27:283B:C525:4592:BF5D (talk) 13:09, 25 May 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  According to this article, in Malta the minimum age of consent appears to be '''12'''