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by billyjobob 746 days ago
Turing's boyfriend was 19, therefore not an adult under UK law at the time.
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The age of consent for heterosexual sex was 16 at the time. As gay sex was illegal, there was no corresponding age of consent for it, but it’s misleading to suggest that 19 was not considered a sufficient age for sexual consent in general.