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I'm not going to get into whatever debate's going on here, but I'll just say this.

The cool thing about human sexuality is that there's an interest in just about everything somewhere. Whatever insecurities you have around anything, whether that's your age or something else, there's going to be ...

it's too risk to let them have a relationship with someone who is 10x larger and 10x more experienced than them


The reply above mine addressed most of this comment, but there is one point I'd like to make in addition.

Why is an experience gap necessarily a bad thing? It's quite a ...

The quote you posted does a strange thing where it opens with one argument, but concludes with a different argument.

It begins by putting forward the implication that that "abusers" don't love those they have AMSC with, as if the author is about to go into an explanation on the psychology behind ...

How on earth would this ever be enforceable?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-14498527/amp/teens-arrested-teacher-suffers-hours-long-sex-attack.html


Think it's worth drawing attention to the language used in this.
"A total of seven young men, ages 14 to 17"
All of a sudden a 14 year old is labelled a young man rather than a ...

Well, then, basic competence is the only standard.


What I'm trying to get across is that this won't make a difference — because competence is already the standard. The test to prove you meet that standard at the moment is that you reach an age of consent. This is the agreed upon standard for ...

Given you agree that the underlying bias is unlikely to change, why were you originally arguing that the proposed policy's compatibility with those biases was a weakness?


Because I think a long term goal should be to tackle those biases, and instead I think the proposal of a test would ...

I think most people are positive about them here, or at least not negative. I've seen supportive posts dotted around here and there.

As for why people might look down on them, I think it's just a pecking order thing. Everyone that feels the need to justify their existence needs an "At least I'm not ...

The assessment I have supported in the past has been one of mental competence


How would this be achieved?

An issue here is that you presume everyone accepts what you consider to be mentally competent as sufficient for sexual relations. Society already has a test for mental competence in ...

The problem with this approach is that it reinforces the idea that sex is this big complicated puzzle; if it's something you need to pass an assessment for, it just supports the current narrative behind the existing age of consent. The reality behind sex is that it's one of the most simple, natural ...