NOUN
- the minimum age for marrying without parental consent or the minimum age for consensual sexual relations; intercourse at an earlier age can result in a charge of assault or statutory rape; the age differs in different states of the Union
How To Use age of consent In A Sentence
- They proposed raising the age of consent from thirteen to sixteen and extending the provisions of the Industrial Schools Amendment Act.
- So I suppose it is appropriate caution not to throw kids below the age of consent into an unstructured, unsupervised situation with potential ephebophile sharks circling the waters. The Volokh Conspiracy » Age Discrmination Against Child Prodigy?
- Mr. Lawrence Is the hon. Gentleman in favour of reducing the age of consent in homosexual offences to 16?
- The psychological age of consent can be much older.
- In Britain, the general age of consent for sexual activity is 16.
- The Police Federation has made it clear that any proposals to reduce the age of consent would be vigorously resisted.
- He was under the age of consent.
- Supported reducing the age of consent for homosexual acts to 16.
- The age of consent is 15 but only provided no monetary reward or inducement is offered.
- In Denmark the age of consent is fifteen for both heterosexuals and homosexuals.