Forgive me for any ignorance and the jumping point on the subject, but I was reading a discussion on another forum which dealt on the legal implications of the relationship between Selena Gomez and Justin Beiber. For anyone who doesn't know who the two are, understandable for Selena Gomez, Gomez is an 18 year old Disney product and Beiber is a 16 year old world destroying "musician".
Now Canada's sex laws are federally relegated and state the age of consent as 16 (until recently 14) with a 5 year window of consent from 14-19 and 15-20. I never realized how liberal these laws were until I researched the American laws which are state run.
Here's a few where the age of consent is 18 and it is mind blowing how much control the state has inside the bedrooms of their people.
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Arizona
The age of consent in Arizona is 18. However there exist in the legislation defenses to prosecution if the defendant is close in age to the "victim" or a spouse of the "victim". Note: these are not close in age exceptions but defenses at court. Arizona Revised Statute 13-1405(A)
13-1407 (Defenses)
* B. It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to sections 13-1404 and 13-1405 in which the victim's lack of consent is based on incapacity to consent because the victim was fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age if at the time the defendant engaged in the conduct constituting the offence the defendant did not know and could not reasonably have known the age of the victim.
* D. It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to section 13-1404 or 13-1405 that the person was the spouse (legally married AND cohabiting) of the other person at the time of commission of the act...
* F. It is a defense to a prosecution pursuant to section 13-1405 if the victim is fifteen, sixteen or seventeen years of age, the defendant is under nineteen years of age or attending high school and is no more than twenty-four months older than the victim and the conduct is consensual.
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These are not guarantees, only defenses used in court.
You can be charged for having sex with your wife or husband
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California
The age of consent is 18, with a misdemeanor if the minor has 3 or fewer years of difference with the major, and potentially a felony if the major is more than 3 years older. It is worth emphasizing that unlike most other states, the close-in-age rule in California (3 years) do not provide an exception nor provide any defense; it merely lowers the crime to a misdemeanor. Under this law, two minors of the exact same age could both be prosecuted. Penalties increase if the minor is under 16 and the major is above 21 or if the minor is more than 3 years younger.
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Literally no one can have sex in California legally if they are under 18
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Virginia
The age of consent in Virginia is 18, with a close in age exception that allows teenagers aged 15, 16 and 17 to engage in sexual acts but only with a partner younger than 18. However the legislation is not clear-cut, and the details are discussed below:
Any penetrative sexual act other than penile-vaginal intercourse is defined in Virginia law as 'sodomy.' Section 18.2-361 of the Code of Virginia entitled "Crimes against nature" states in part;
"If any person carnally knows in any manner any brute animal, or carnally knows any male or female person by the anus or by or with the mouth, or voluntarily submits to such carnal knowledge, he or she shall be guilty of ... felony..."
In addition, any sexual intercourse is defined in Virginia law as 'fornication.' Section 18.2-344 of the Code of Virginia entitled "Crimes against nature" states;
"Any person, not being married, who voluntarily shall have sexual intercourse with any other person, shall be guilty of fornication, punishable as a Class 4 misdemeanor."
The courts of Virginia have ruled that these statutes are not invalid under the US Supreme Court's decision in Lawrence v. Texas since that case only applied to adults, and the age of majority in Virginia is 18. This means that those 18 and above involved in consensual activity in private may have a defense in court, but those under 18 do not.
Section § 18.2-63 of the Code refers to minors younger than 15, while § 18.2-371 is about 15, 16 and 17 years olds.
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Underage homosexuality is defined as illegal
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Wisconsin
The age of consent in Wisconsin is 18.
948.02 Sexual assault of a child... 2) SECOND DEGREE SEXUAL ASSAULT. Whoever has sexual contact or sexual intercourse with a person who has not attained the age of 16 years is guilty of a Class C felony...
948.09 Sexual intercourse with a child age 16 or older. Whoever has sexual intercourse with a child who is not the defendant’s spouse and who has attained the age of 16 years is guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.
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Basically two 16-17 year old kids can have sex and unless they are born on the same day one can be charged with a crime.
So much for the land of the free.
It might hit a little close to me because I was only that age a few years ago, but there is a clear difference between protecting children and young adults from predators and repressing them to a state where sex, a socially constructed phenomena, is wielded as a weapon of the elites.