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The Age of Consent in Netherlands is 16 years old. The age of consent is the minimum age at which an individual is considered legally old enough to consent to participation in sexual activity. Individuals aged 15 or younger in Netherlands are not legally able to consent to sexual activity, and such activity may result in prosecution for statutory rape or the equivalent local law.

Quote from: Sandra on Jul, 03, 2023,

Here in the states it's eighteen. I think that is a good age. Let the children develop. Conversely..Men have been wrongly incarcerated for having sex with young girls that trapped them.

21.  The human brain and nervous system are not full developed until age 23.  That includes maturity.  That's why I think firearm ownership in the US should be 21. 

mom seems to be ok with it..

I get that laws are there to protect people but a single age can be a very blunt instrument. I wasn't the first boy in my class to lose my virginity, nor was my girlfriend the first in hers either. We felt ready. We took precautions, we visited a Brook clinic and A got the pill.  Being the UK, no charge nor any need to involve parents in her choice.  It was brilliant and we fucked a lot that summer. But we were both 13 and the law, had it known, would have declared us illegal.  It was right for us.   But we also knew people who left school at 18 as virgins, didn't feel ready, either physically or mentally.

I'm a Dad now and I wondered how I'd feel once my daughters (I've two plus one son too) started dating.  So easy to become a hypocrite. But in fact, I was cool about it. I trusted their common sense and their own judgement.  That seems better as an age of consent than a single legal age, whether that's 16, 18, 13 or whatever!

Quote from: John_Handcock on Jul, 06, 2023, Personally I don't believe in age of consent per se. I believe in a sliding scale based on the age difference of the two consenting parties. For instance 14-15, 16-20, 18-25, 20-30, 22-40, 25-50. This would help eliminate some of the young men being flagged as a sexual offender because his GF happens to be under age but he is only a year or two older.

yeah it can happen...  in a different century I sort of fell into that range... I had a GF for a few years, who was almost 2 years younger than me on the calendar.... not in appearance.... when I turned 18 there were some things to be sorted.    Nothing "bad".... it all worked out without incident, but the thought was at the back of mind, it could go bad quickly. 

those days are LONG gone,  now it's strictly danger-zone and 100% imagination.   yes I still have working eyes and imagination... and memory... but you know where I'm coming from.   

Personally I don't believe in age of consent per se. I believe in a sliding scale based on the age difference of the two consenting parties. For instance 14-15, 16-20, 18-25, 20-30, 22-40, 25-50. This would help eliminate some of the young men being flagged as a sexual offender because his GF happens to be under age but he is only a year or two older.

Quote from: Sandra on Jul, 03, 2023,

I haven't the slightest idea of ages, but I like those pics very, very much.... of course it is 100% fantasyland.