(August 2, 2012, 12:09 am)proteus33 the reason age of consent does start ecerywhere at onset of puberty because there have been many cases of puberty starting at very early ages linrea medea from peru is a fine example she developed breasts and started menstration at 3 and had her son at 5 years old surely you dont think a 5 year old even through she got pregnant at 5 should be legal age. there is a famous pregnant prostitude photograph from the 1800s the girl was 10 years old and the author of peter pan based wendy off of his dealings with her and how she took care of her fellow street orphans. but no puberty should not be a factor when considering age of consent.

you make a good point and now I feel stupid for what I said before. but i was not including the strange examples of puberty that you have included because in reality they are so rare I think they are actually medical problem with the woman and perhaps due to hormone imbalances.

But yes I agree there should also be an age included with the law in conjunction with the puberty of the woman. My concern is the physical safetey of the woman and If I was in charge completely of the law it would be:
* she must have reached puberty ( so that her body is prepared for intercourse )
* must have reached mature age ( for example 10 years old )
* must have intelectual inteligence to consent to making love

unfortunately with the amount of hormones being pumped into live stock to increase meat quantity it is causing world wide phenomenon of girls puberty starting earlier and earlier.

(August 5, 2012, 3:58 pm)bugmenot But yes I agree there should also be an age included with the law in conjunction with the puberty of the woman. My concern is the physical safetey of the woman and If I was in charge completely of the law it would be:
* she must have reached puberty ( so that her body is prepared for intercourse )
* must have reached mature age ( for example 10 years old )
* must have intellectual intelligence to consent to making love

I'm not sure this really is a good pre-req to people having sex, In fact I would say most of the time, sex is both the cause and effect of more stupidity than anything else on the planet.

That being said, I believe assigning a chronological age to one's "legal status" to choose sexual partners of different age groups is an incredibly closed minded and half-assed attempt at a solution to minimize the legal responsibility of parenting.

.....and now I'll be quiet

Please can we have some more?