#Age of Consent

[beautiesofbygoneeras]

Helen Mirren Appearing In, "Age of Consent," 1969.

#helen mirren #dame helen mirren #actress #uk #gif #movie #video #age of consent #full exposure #teasing #posterior #beautiful #extraordinary #favorite #magnificent #outstanding #1960s #1969

[klaus1964b]

Helen Mirren & James Mason 1969 in 'Age of Consent'

#hellen mirren #age of consent #james mason #1969

[emisoras]

#age of consent #new order #power corruption and lies

[mrmousetolliver]

The Age of Consent (1984) by Bronski Beat

#classic #style #gay #art #gay artist #gay art #vintage #gay history #synthpop #new wave #bronski beat #age of consent

[sophiemariepl]

Men who view women and girls in the category of “legal/illegal” and prey on teenage girls who just crossed the age of consent in their country (be that 15, 16, 17, 18), are some of the biggest egoists on this goddamn planet.

They think only in terms of them getting legal consequences of their actions.

It doesn’t matter to them if the girl will have a trauma afterwards and battle the consequences of such a “relationship” with a much older man for the rest of her life.

#patriarchy #fxxk patriarchy #social darwinism #age of consent #save teen girls from predatory men #predatory men #in my Lisbeth Salander era #radical feminism #intersectional feminism #feminism

[80s-song-smackdown]

80 New Wave Tournament Side A

#80snewwavetournament #80ssongsmackdown #too shy #age of consent #kajagoogoo #new order #Youtube #80s music

[everlastingrandom]

ID: And associated press article header that reads,” Japan raises the age of consent to 16 from 13, which as among the world’s lowest.”

Full article here. God, I hope this gets genuine assholes to shut the fuck up about age of consent. Parliament has also heavily redefined the definition of rape and reformed laws regarding additional sex crimes.

#News #age of consent #Japanese news #current events #sex criminalization #legislation #Japanese parliament

[archivist-crow]

New Order - Power, Corruption & Lies (1983)

Forty-one years ago today, on May 2, 1983, New Order released their second studio album, Power, Corruption & Lies. Fully embracing their new identity, incorporating more electronic and dance club elements, and with an upbeat freshness to songs such as “Age of Consent,” “The Village,” and “Your Silent Face,” the album stands in stark contrast to their dark brooding debut.

#new order #age of consent #power corruption and lies #music #video

[shinyrhinestones]

No seriously, why is it minors dni and not the age of consent? Wdym that I’m allowed to go out and actually engage in sexual stuff but then not allowed to READ about it?

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(Sorry, english isn’t my first language, so this might not make sense..)

#fanfiction #smut #age of consent #fanfiction smut #criminalminds #tokio hotel #criminal minds fic #tokio hotel fic

[racheld93]

Want to know what really grosses me out in general and also about Stranger Things because I was born and raised in Indiana?

The age of consent is 16.

Yes you read that correctly.

Thats why in season one it 'wasn't made a big deal' that Jonathan took pictures of Nancy and Steve having sex.

And in season two it 'wasn't made a big deal' for Karen, a grown ass married woman, to flirt back with Billy, a kid thats the same age as her eldest child.

And in season three it 'wasn't made a big deal' when the Karen and Billy shit happened again no matter if he was freshly 18 or not, it still would have been legal as long as he was 16 or older. And I'm so glad they didn't put that shit on screen. Hate that Billy got flayed, hate that so much you have no idea. But I would have hated it even more if things had gone as they'd planned and Karen really did show up to have sex with a kid her daughter's age.

What I'm saying is, it was cool that a nostalgic show took place in my home state not too unlike a town I grew up in. But with choices the duffers made over the seasons, also including the subtle not so subtle implied rasicm and obvious homophobia and ignorant satanic paranoia and blatant child abuse (that all very much still happens today), it makes me think that the only reason they chose a conservative Midwestern state was so they could get away with writing all that bullshit.

And if it wasn't for some of the actors pushing for better dialog and situations and basically twisting their arms for different scenes and refusing to do others, this show wouldn't have lasted this long. Because we'd have been watching the same overused and small-minded stereotypes and tropes from decades ago and have stopped watching.

So, does learning the age of consent in Indiana make you even more aware of how many scenes in Stranger Things gives me the heebie jeebies?

Thought so.

#and yes the heebie jeebies comment was a hint that I could totally see where Billy was coming from in the S2 Byers house scene #If I had a younger sister in a house full of dudes I didnt know where the school weirdo lives that takes pictures of young girls having sex #id have overreacted too #stranger things #indiana #age of consent #fuck you duffers #billy deserved better #and so many others did too #billy hargrove #steve harrington #harringrove #technically not a Harringrove post but tagging it anyway cause that's what im about and this is a billy stan post #anti karen wheeler #is anyone going to see this post? no idea but ive been thinking about this for years so here it is #my thoughts #with love r #also anti all the pool moms cause that scene was bullshit #why couldnt they have just done teen girls and maybe even a couple boys sighing as billy walked by in slow motion? #that scene could have been wholesome and adorable instead of unneeded and cringy

[atomic-chronoscaph]

Helen Mirren (1969)

#helen mirren #60s movies #age of consent #60s comedy #sixties #1969

[enbycrip]

One of the creepier historical myths, and one often used as an appeal to authority by creepy sex predator types, is the idea that premodern history was chock full of adult men boning little girls with the full acceptance and applause of secular and religious authorities.

Luckily, through the broad scope of human cultures and time periods, this just is not true. While it absolutely *happened*, same way it does now across the world (looking at you, US States where legislators calling trans people “groomers” for not wanting trans kids forced into suicide by gender dysphoria are doubling down on keeping ages of consent of *12* and *13*) it was vanishingly rare amongst the vast majority of the population from at least the early medieval period onwards (parts of the classical world were disturbingly big on adult men having sex with pubescent people read as boys and girls), and tended to result in enormous general opprobrium when it did happen.

Marriage before around age 16 minimum is almost entirely a noble phenomenon in the vast majority of history for alliance reasons, and even then cohabitation (ie regular sex - there was in theory ritual “bedding” on the wedding night but it was rarely expected to result in actual p-in-v for people below the age of 16ish) was a thing parents thought *hard* about the timing of because having regular sex with the likelihood of conception was thought to be bad for the health of *both* partners.

If you pick Henry VIII, for example, one of the figures your mind leaps right to when the terms “early modern” and “marriage” are mentioned in close proximity, the excuse that he finally settled on to try to divorce Catherine of Aragon in the end was her brief marriage to his elder brother, Arthur, at that time the heir to the English throne until his early death of what was thought to be sweating sickness. It was accepted for decades of Catherine and Henry’s married life that that marriage was unconsummated without demur because they were both 15 at the time, and despite being ritually bedded (and Arthur making a few comments to his mates the next day about “being in the midst of Spain all night being thirsty work” which Henry’s lawyers made a *lot* of at his direction) they were actively kept away from each other at that point because Arthur’s health wasn’t great and his parents, Henry VII and Elizabeth of York, worried that regular sex at that age would basically drain his energy and unbalance his humours. There was a legal (and sometimes general) assumption in this period that putting a married couple in any kind of proximity where there was even a chance of privacyish meant boning and babies, so those couples married at that age sadly didn’t always get a great chance to get any kind of comfortable with each other even if they were living in the same household.

There is significant literature written in the medieval and early modern periods by clerics *and* medics about the dangers of sex and procreation for immature bodies. It is a topic that’s significantly raised by clerics writing about the need for female consent in marriage, mostly in the earlier medieval period when Christianity had an uneven hold on a lot of Europe, but up to the high medieval period when discussing parents marrying kids off too early for power consolidation; there were always parents who pushed for consummation too early because a marriage could be annulled if consummation couldn’t be proven, but that was rightly regarded as shitty behaviour - wilful endangerment of one’s children’s health or indeed their life for power.

#early modern history #medieval #early medieval #history #consent #historical marriage #the tudor dynasty #the tudors #age of consent #henry vii x elizabeth of york #henry viii #catherine of aragon #historical medicine #historiography

[angelstills]

Age of Consent (1969)

#Age of Consent #1960s #1969 #Film #Helen Mirren #Michael Powell

[just-a-blog-for-polls]

The age of consent is the age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts. It is illegal for an adult to engage in sexual acts with a person younger than the age of consent (this usually doesn't apply to situations where the individuals are close in age to one another, even if one is of age). The age of consent varies between 11 and 21 around the world but is most commonly between the ages of 14 and 18 (source).

#plz reblog #polls #law #laws #legislation #age of consent

[paperlunamoth]

The older I get, the more strongly I feel that the age of consent should be higher than 18.

An 18 year old, quite literally, does not have a fully developed brain (no one under ~25 does). An 18 year old is psychologically a highschooler. An 18 year old has little to no experience living independently and navigating the world, functionally, as an adult.

An 18 year old is someone who is only just starting to think and live their life in a truly adult way. That does not make them an adult, it makes them someone who is still in the process of transitioning into adulthood.

If it is normal and reasonable for people to refer to freshmen college students as "kids," then it should not be normal and reasonable for people that age to do porn, or for people twice that age to be legally allowed to date them.

If people (in some places) need to be 21 to legally drink, smoke, or use weed, because of their still-developing brains, then 18 year old brains are not developed enough to consent to joining the military.

Anyone over 25, think back to when you were 18. Do you feel like an adult in those memories? Or do you feel like a teenager, eager to prove their "adultness" to the world, but still inexperienced, uncertain, maybe a little naive, and maybe not the best decision maker compared to your older self?

I don't think the age of consent should necessarily be raised all the way to 25, but I do believe that 18 as the age of consent is based on an outdated way of thinking about growing up, one that came from people who viewed the transition into adulthood in a way that isn't compatible with modern values and a modern understanding of psychological development. The age of consent has been raised throughout history as the times changed (in the US, it was set as low as 7 at first), and I don't think it's the most absurd suggestion in the world to say that maybe it should be raised again.

#feminism #radical feminism #radblr #reform #age of consent #swerf #anti sex work #anti military #discourse #luna's

[archivist-crow]

New Order - “Age of Consent” (1983)

#new order #age of consent #music #video #power corruption & lies #peter hook #bernard sumner #stephen morris #gillian gilbert