Age Limits Of Intimate Relationships
Student Name: Lydia Mugridge
Consider the Warren Jeffs topic in the Chapter 8 lecture. The definition of a minor and what constitutes their rights and freedoms varies per state, let alone drastically socially, across the nation.
Question: What is your opinion on age limits for people having intimate relationships, knowing they may have consensual sex though widely different in age, and in context of upbringing, religious beliefs, etc? In other words, who is of the right age, and with whom? The discussion about people having consensual sex at a young age and with a partner much older than them has been around for quite a while. People have different views about age limits depending on the society they were born in, the beliefs they were taught, and how …show more content…
Around the world, the age limit in which a person is considered "legal" to have sex varies depending on where one lives. The age difference between a couple is another circumstance that comes up due to the fact that everyone one has their own opinion on how large an age difference should be between an intimate relationship. In the United States the age of consent is between sixteen and eighteen depending on which state one lives in. In today's society, children get taught about sex during sex ed in their fourth or fifth year of school, where its more about the reproductive organs than the actual act. By the time children hit their teenage years in high school it is not rare to hear students talking about having sex or seeing someone pregnant. In my opinion, the age in which teenagers should be considered as "legal" to have consensual sex should be sixteen. By this age the majority of
Consider the Warren Jeffs topic in the Chapter 8 lecture. The definition of a minor and what constitutes their rights and freedoms varies per state, let alone drastically socially, across the nation.
Question: What is your opinion on age limits for people having intimate relationships, knowing they may have consensual sex though widely different in age, and in context of upbringing, religious beliefs, etc? In other words, who is of the right age, and with whom? The discussion about people having consensual sex at a young age and with a partner much older than them has been around for quite a while. People have different views about age limits depending on the society they were born in, the beliefs they were taught, and how …show more content…
Around the world, the age limit in which a person is considered "legal" to have sex varies depending on where one lives. The age difference between a couple is another circumstance that comes up due to the fact that everyone one has their own opinion on how large an age difference should be between an intimate relationship. In the United States the age of consent is between sixteen and eighteen depending on which state one lives in. In today's society, children get taught about sex during sex ed in their fourth or fifth year of school, where its more about the reproductive organs than the actual act. By the time children hit their teenage years in high school it is not rare to hear students talking about having sex or seeing someone pregnant. In my opinion, the age in which teenagers should be considered as "legal" to have consensual sex should be sixteen. By this age the majority of