Vaush with yet another reason to get mad at China, mulls plans to visit before the laws change.
I think it is 14 in Spain as well. The idea behind having an age of consent that low is probably that teenagers having sex with each other shouldn’t be the police’s business.
[tw: Sexual violence]
It’s pretty fucked up that it’s that low in China given that such Chinese law is partially responsible for an oil executive getting away with sexually abusing, for years, a teenaged girl under his care. The only silver-lining of that horrific event being that it has created public pressure for China to raise its age of consent.
Many countries are able to write common-sense laws that allow for teenagers to have sex, while still making it illegal for adults to take advantage of them. There’s no reason that China can’t do the same
They guy who is the Danish minister for foreign affairs had sexual relations with a 15 year old girl from his party’s youth organisation when he was 34 under what accounts suggests to be less than consensual circumstances. It was technically legal as the age of consent here is 15 and since the party stopped the girl and her family from involving the police.
He stepped back from his most high-profiled rapporteurships for a few months and then went back to be elected several times and be appointed to one of the most influential ministries.
