World Wide Age Of Consent List.

[Bruce]

http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm

 

Link to a list which is too long to copy and paste. Ranges from 12 for females in Columbia, Mexico and Panama to 18 in many other countries. Some muslim countries mandate marriage age tied into age of consent. However there are so many loop holes in local muslim cultures and there really is no minimum age.

 

Many countries, including Thailand, the #1 destination for kiddie sex (NOT THE PHILIPPINES!!!!) has no published minimum age.

 

The Philippines used to be 12 -14-15 depending on local customs. It was George W. Bush who started all this sex trafficking and minimum age issues. If he did not demand a legal age minimum of 18 and then bribed the Philippines with millions to fight under age sex, the Philippines would be in a much better position. This is what happens when 'someone' says that sex / prostitution is wrong... but has no real plan on how to replace the lost money for the families when prostitution is made illegal.   

[mrcurtis08]

http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm

 

Link to a list which is too long to copy and paste. Ranges from 12 for females in Columbia, Mexico and Panama to 18 in many other countries. Some muslim countries mandate marriage age tied into age of consent. However there are so many loop holes in local muslim cultures and there really is no minimum age.

 

Many countries, including Thailand, the #1 destination for kiddie sex (NOT THE PHILIPPINES!!!!) has no published minimum age.

 

The Philippines used to be 12 -14-15 depending on local customs. It was George W. Bush who started all this sex trafficking and minimum age issues. If he did not demand a legal age minimum of 18 and then bribed the Philippines with millions to fight under age sex, the Philippines would be in a much better position. This is what happens when 'someone' says that sex / prostitution is wrong... but has no real plan on how to replace the lost money for the families when prostitution is made illegal.   

Just to be clear - you have a problem with laws against sex trafficking - particularly of minors?

[jon1]

http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm

 

Link to a list which is too long to copy and paste. Ranges from 12 for females in Columbia, Mexico and Panama to 18 in many other countries. Some muslim countries mandate marriage age tied into age of consent. However there are so many loop holes in local muslim cultures and there really is no minimum age.

 

Many countries, including Thailand, the #1 destination for kiddie sex (NOT THE PHILIPPINES!!!!) has no published minimum age.

 

The Philippines used to be 12 -14-15 depending on local customs. It was George W. Bush who started all this sex trafficking and minimum age issues. If he did not demand a legal age minimum of 18 and then bribed the Philippines with millions to fight under age sex, the Philippines would be in a much better position. This is what happens when 'someone' says that sex / prostitution is wrong... but has no real plan on how to replace the lost money for the families when prostitution is made illegal.   

It's typical of the US. Throw money at a problem rather than provide a viable solution. I agree that if the economic status was different there wouldn't be as MANY as there are. But, you will never get rid of it 100%. The economic status here won't ever drastically change because of the HAVE's do not want the HAVE NOT's to ever get ahead. My country will never learn to stay out of other country's problems. If they want to charge US Citizens abroad that patronize this situation, so be it. But throwing $ to shut down the establishment is a no win situation. You see more and more Asians (Taiwanese, Chinese, Japanese) taking over/patronizing those areas and eventually the price will not be conducive for western men's patronage. The rights groups only target the ones that are being ran by westerners (as they pay the least amount of protection money and become the corrupt politician/police sacrificial lamb)..

 

I think the OP was trying to show how the age of consent is always moving around and how a foreigner can get trapped. It happens all the time, even when the foreigner checks her ID and it says 18 or above. Usually a trumped up charge and false affadavit will be filed and it won't go away unless a LOT of $ is involved...

[brock]

I think you will find that Thailand is 18 years the same as the Philippines,

If you lower the age then result will be more unwanted pregnancies imo.

[Mike S]

I think the main point being that not everyone or country has the same rule on age limit consent ..... it wasn't until much later in US history that the 18 age limit came into being and I feel more than anything it was to keep students in school. .... or to keep from having problems with child birth ..... but just remember that there are countries that permit marriages at an early age so apparently they aren't worried about the child birth problem .... personally I don't feel that a 16 0r 17 year old can't have a good relationship with someone their own age and by this I mean not not someone in their twenties or above ..... I guess i feel it is more of a compatible thing ...... I know some males and females that at 16-17 are more mature than some 50 year old I know ........ but the law is the law and I respect that ..... by the way before someone tries to pin a pedophile label on me when my asawa and I got married she was 38 and I was 62 .....

and that was the way I liked it ...... uh-huh uh-huh ..... :thumbsup: :mocking:

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[i am bob]

One of the things that this outside tampering has produced is a sad situation for many young men.  We all know that young boys and girls, having gone through puberty, will experiment with sex.  So now you have a boy who is 17 and a girl who is 17 experimenting and that is considered fine.  But if the boy turns 18 before the girl does, what he has done in the past is now considered Statutory Rape and he can be charged with such.  And if she decides that she doesn't like this boy any more, at any time she can turn around now and declare Statutory Rape - regardless if they are both of the age of consent but stopped their experimenting before this age.  By the way, both of these only apply for the guys - girls won't be charged if the reverse is true.

[Americano]

The list that Bruce provided shows how the age of consent varies by country but there is more too it that the list doesn't cover. For example, the list says the age of consent in the USA is 16. The truth is each state in the USA sets its own age of consent which currently varies from 16 to 18. In the past it was only 14 in Hawaii.

Edited June 3, 2013 by Americano

[Headroom]

I think you will find that Thailand is 18 years the same as the Philippines,

If you lower the age then result will be more unwanted pregnancies imo.

I think you will find if you do the research that 18 is the age mandated by foreign governments for their citizens residing in the Philippines and that the age of consent for locals in the Philippines is 12 although if money, material gain or coercion are involved it's illegal.

 

Have a look at the following:

 

http://www.sexlaws.org/changing_age_of_consent_consent_from_12_to_16_in_philipines_meets_with_some_resistance

[Dave Hounddriver]

Does anyone else find it interesting that some governments (I am thinking USA because they are always in the news) follow their citizens around the world and selectively decide what laws they must follow?  Example:  US citizen goes to Amsterdam.  Does he have to follow the US law about smoking dope or the local law.  Then US citizen goes to Columbia (example from opening post).  Does he have to follow the US law about who he can date.  I actually find it disturbing that a government would do that and their citizens would let them.  It must be the brainwashing given out through school because if Russia or China told us what we could or could not do there would be hell to pay.

[Bruce]

Just to be clear - you have a problem with laws against sex trafficking - particularly of minors?

 

NO. I have said several times that I am all for stopping kiddie porn et al. My issues are 1. that sex work should be legal, taxed, and supported medically and 'lightly' controlled, 2. That the age of consent should be put back to 15 where it was before GW Bush got involved, and leave the dating aspect to the family and the girl, WITH a safety net of police help for reports of any forced dating by the family, 3. That the minimum age to work in a bar remain at 18 (separate issues than the age of consent). 

 

If the US government were to stop all funding for any police actions for consent issues over 15 and bar issues over 18, and instead work on the kiddie porn (Gary Glitter et al) crowd, a lot of the fake raids and stolen charity money issues would go away. 

 

Remember that there are still kidnapping laws in place so anyone doing what is now called sex trafficking.... is still subject to the kidnapping laws.

 

By removing the US funds, it also removes those who are simply looking to create arrests for further funding and law enforcement can then focus on true kidnapping and related kiddie porn crimes.  

 

Sex trafficking as you know it is nothing more than a BUSINESS, funded by the US government. It is a catch 22 situation in that the US government EXPECTS results to get more funding. This is why the President of the Philippines, bnack in March signed into law a new and expanded anti sex trafficking law..... WHY??? Because under the old law... there just weren't enough victims to save and therefore justify more US funding. AND.. they even admitted as much in the news articles that under the new and expanded law, the definition of 'victim' was expanded.... to then allow for more arrests!

 

There are 2 schools of thought.... If you have a speed limit of 30 MPH and you have 100 speeding tickets written (revenue for the government) per week..... you can 1. LOWER the speed limit to 25 MPH and thereby instantly generate more revenue because more speeding tickets are written... OR....2. you can look at the situation and say that if so many people are speeding, perhaps the road conditions are such you can RAISE the speed limit to 45 MPH and then that stops a huge % of speeding! And of course lowers the number of tickets written and lowers the revenue off the government. What do YOU think the government will do???? LOL

 

By RAISING the age of consent, the Philippines government (pushed by the US government) created an entire class of new 'criminals' overnight! All potential income producing arrests..... So, following that if the government was to set the age limit back to what it was before GW Bush forced the change, then overnight.... you instantly have MUCH fewer 'criminals' and arrests and then.... lost income from the US government.

 

The change of raising the age limit severely damaged the (poorer) Philippine family. Did nothing to protect any girls, who were not asking for any protection, and simply forced the girls and their families to lie and say the girl was 18 instead of 15,16,17.

 

The sole reason for the Philippines government to focus on sex trafficking is money from the US! Never forget that. Without that US money.... no false arrests (kiddie porn crowd still subject to arrest under the old laws) and bribes paid. No press drama stories and the basic poorer Philippine family can then again make their own decisions.

Edited June 3, 2013 by Bruce