Re: Why were age of consent laws created?

Well, in all legal matters there is an "age of consent." It exists under the assumption that children are not capable of making certain decisions on their own due to inexperience and immaturity. In most things, parental approval will override a child's inability to consent, except for sex. In fact, it doesn't even matter if a girl lies to you and has you utterly convinced that she is 18, her parents also lie and tell you she is 18, and her parents tell you they want you to have sex with her. If she is even a day younger, it's illegal whether you know or not. Sex consent laws have been taken to the extreme where a minor is assumed to be incabable of making decisions on sex at all, regardless of age or parental consent, and to engage in sex acts with a minor is a horrible offence regardless of the circumstances. Circumstances can swing any other case in either direction, but in statutory rape, circumstances are meaningless. It's ridiculous.

In most states in the United States of America, with parental approval, a marriage license can be granted prior to the minor becoming 18(the limit is usually 16, I think with exceptions for special circumstances). In fact, a child may be unable to consent to sex, yet they may be able to be married if the parents go along with it. So, a minor is capable of getting married and signing their life away to another person(not to sound down on marriage, just to emphesize the idiocy), but cannot have sex at the same age.