[drblast]

Laws are made to apply to everyone, not the exceptional person who is sexually mature well in advance of her peers.

Your argument might well be that the age of consent is too high. That's fine, it's arbitrary. But there does need to be one to prevent all sorts of horrible things from happening.

And no, the laws don't prevent everything but that's not an argument that they shouldn't exist at all.

[jelliclesfarm]

There are no laws against minors having sex. There are laws against non minors having sex with minors.

I am not arguing that.

I am just saying that a minor not being able to consent due to their alleged ‘mental deficiency’ due to age(as suggested by another poster above) is dodgy.

Ok. Let’s take an example of an actual ‘mentally deficient’ person...even an adult. Don’t they have sexual urges and biological needs? Are they capable of consent? What does the law say about that?

Sexual urges are no different than hunger or thirst. I want to know why sex has a more special status than food or water?