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Age of Consent and Sex


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In the book, I write about how older men being attracted to sexually-mature younger women is not "sick," "perverted," or "immoral," rather it is a typical human, automatic, affective (feeling-based) response. The age of consent, which ranges from 11 years old to 21 years old (16–18 in the United States) is an arbitrary number and a legal distinction related to sexual activity. The vast majority of older people who are attracted to younger people below the age of consent respect the law by . . . See the complete description at http://www.uncomfortable-ideas.com/tools/bg/Bo/ideas
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Uncomfortable Ideas Blog: Challenging Ideology for the Sake of RealityBy Bo Bennett, PhD