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Foucault (and others) wanted to be rid of the law because (a) it seemed incoherent to hold minors to be responsible for crimes while denying them agency in matters of sex, (b) he did not think minors were automatically unable to give consent and that a test of maturity should be used instead, (c) the law was discriminatory and gave different consent ages for homo- and heterosexual sex, (d) historical precedent showed that laws about sex became more and more restrictive, and he did not want any law at all to be specifically about sex, and (e) it was his mission to challenge power structures, so he may have been trolling a bit, or at least making a point to give power a good sweat.