Age of Consent Quotes

I did not think we were as low as this! One member suggested that it should be reduced to ten, and oh my God, that it was hard for a man having a charge brought against him not to be able to plead the consent of a child like that.

At a very young age I was allowed to go into the cinema and watch adult films.

At what point is a person old enough to say, 'I own my body, and I get to do what I want with it'?

Contrary to most state laws, the Catholic Church considered the age of consent to be as young as 12.

My mother put me on birth control as soon as I told her I wanted to go on it. I was 16. I was very young.

Probably the easiest thing would be to vasectimize males at the age of 13 after freezing some of their sperm. Then you could unfreeze it only after they have enough money to support a child up to the age of 18.

I have been involved with 'Spring Awakening' for six years. I am 20 now - I just turned 20 in August - and I originally auditioned when I was 14 years old. I auditioned for Michael Mayer, Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater.

And at some point who's to say that you cannot have sex with a child some point.

I didn't have sex until I was 23 and that was with a man. I made up for lost time after that in a hurry. I wish I could have had sex when I was, like, 14, 15 or 16 because that's such an exciting age to have sex.

No being who is not too degraded or too utterly mentally and morally diseased to be a safe person to be at large, could wish that a little child, a baby girl fourteen, twelve, aye, ten years of age should be made as is the case in many of our states, the legal and rightful prey of grown men. There is no argument. There is no basis for a difference of opinion. No man on earth would pass or want passed such a law for his own child, for his own sister, for anyone for whom he cared. It is too gross, it is too inhuman for words. No legislature on the earth, if its discussions were open to women, if women were present at its sessions would ever have passed such acts.

I don't believe that sex with 13-year-olds is okay.

My mother got pregnant with me at the age of fifteen. This was '64, and unheard of at that time.

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.

I started out just as Elvis was going into the army, Jerry Lee Lewis married his 14-year-old cousin, and Little Richard became a priest.

At the age of 16 I was already dreaming of having a baby because I felt myself to be an adult, but my mum forbid it. Right now, I feel like a teenager and I want to have fun for one or two more years before starting a family.

The age of eighteen, far more than the age of twenty-one, has been and is the age of maturity in America—and never more than now.

Any romantic feelings for a 12-year-old are like entering into a fantasy world.

When I got old enough to go to night clubs to hear that music at the age of 15.

When I was 13 I had a fake Id that said that I was 19. I was getting in all the clubs.

A librarian is not a legal process. There is not librarian in the country — unless she or he is a lawyer — who is in the position to determine what he or she is looking at is indeed child pornography.

I feel like you don't know if someone's equipped for a romantic relationship until they're out of their twenties.

We need to evolve a uniform law which does not leave room for any confusion and states that the minimum marriageable age for women is 18 years and that for men is 21 years. But the demand for this should come from within the community.

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?

I'm a teen-age bride.

The next time a former child star is in the news, look at the age at which he or she started performing. Then imagine making a life-changing decision at that age. Chances are good he or she wasn't the one who made it.