Posted by yxibow on May 22, 2006, at 13:58:19
In reply to Re: legal age, posted by B2chica on May 22, 2006, at 11:21:22
> > i know that the legal age of consent in Canada is 14...but can a 14 year old and a 17 year old have consentual sex???
>
> could this be a philisophical question?
> can a 14yr old truly 'consent' to sex?
> my personal opinion is probably not. at 16 i'd say yes. but 14 is just so tender that i don't know.
> others asked is it legal (apparently yes), consent (technically yes), is it a good idea (mostly likely no) even biologically. the body of a 14 year old (boy or girl) is still going through many changes.
> i'd say relax and just give it some time. if the older person really cares they will wait. if they don't, they just wanted a piece and would you really want to 'give it up' to someone like that?
All good arguments. I have found, though this is many years in my past, that (when I was younger) and had younger friends in Canada, because of a difference in social stratification, youth tended to grow up faster than their counterparts in the US. For one thing, alternating provinces and territories have 18 or 19 as their drinking age. Sexual consent, yes, technically has been 14 as long as I can remember. Whether someone knows enough about sexuality at that age depends largely on their individual maturity and the morals of the country. Until our values started pervading into the Canadian landscape, urban centres in Canada were more progressive and less inhibitory than those in the states. That in itself doesn't mean naivete doesn't exist, but the cultural values are different. 14 -- maybe a bit too young from a US standpoint, but who is to say it is from a Canadian one. I think perhaps 16 is a more mature age on par with its heritage in England, but these of course are slippery slopes, with as pointed out making 16 and 17 illegal. Some places have laws that allow 2 year differences in age at that juncture to prevent such a waste of court time.-- tidings
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