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Originally Posted by Ford Prefect
The legal age was 14, and might still be, but a campaign promise of the Conservatives was that they'd raise it to 16 if elected. I haven't heard that they actually did, but they very well might have.
Also, by defining the age of consent as either 14 or 16, I always thought that only applied to partners of a similar age ... say one or two years apart in age. I believe it's still illegal for someone who is much older than 18 to have sex with someone under 18. I'm no legal eagle though ... maybe one of CP lawyers can clairfy this for us.
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I am pretty sure the way it was before, was that someone older than 18 could have sex with anyone over 14 as long as there was consent and the 18+ person could not be in a position of trust, such as a teacher.