Some members of the ruling coalition have joined the opposition in attacking a proposed revision of the Sexual Crimes Act lowering the age of consent for sexual intercourse from 16 to 12. The ...

Age of consent laws began in England during the Middle Ages. Once girls turned 12, they were considered mature enough to consent to sex and even get married.

The original age of consent, codified in English common law and later adopted by the American colonies, ranged from 10 to 12.In 1885, Britain and the states began raising the age to 16, ostensibly ...

In Sudan, the legal age of consent is 12 for females and 13 for males, while in Libya the age of consent is 16 for females and 18 for males. Non-heterosexual sex is forbidden in all three countries.

Consent can be given and taken away, and may change over the course of an interaction. And jurors who may be viewing those 18 seconds of footage of E.M. during the Hockey Canada trial in London ...

Sir, – It makes no sense that the attorney general in 1993 felt that introducing the same age of consent for gay and heterosexual people could lead to a “backlash” (State Papers, December 27th).

More than three decades ago a Bill to have the age of consent raised from 14 years to 16 years was tabled in the House of Representatives by then Minister of Youth and Community Development M ...

TOKYO — Japan’s parliament on Friday raised the age of sexual consent to 16 from 13, a limit that had remained unchanged for more than a century and was among the world’s lowest, amid calls ...