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writes:The age of consent in my state is 16. Does this mean if I'm 16 I can consent to sexual activities with someone over 18, 21, etc? All my friends and I keep arguing back and forth about the meaning of 'age of consent'. Reply to this Question
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reader, anonymous, writes (24 July 2007): Does age of consent at 16 mean that if you are feel frightened living in your home by the mistreatment of a stepfather who has so far been the victim of constant verbal harassment but the stepfather has left the house telling my grandson who is seventeen, that he's leaving so he won't hit him,and we know that the stepfather grew up in a home seeing his mother beaten up, does he old enough to choose where he lives?A very concerned grandmother
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reader, anonymous, writes (9 April 2007): The age of consent is different in different countries so just go by the rules in your country.
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reader, anonymous, writes (9 April 2007): This is verified as being by the original poster of the questionI did look up the age of consent for my state several weeks ago. I was confused as to weather or not I could consent to someone over 18 while I'm under 18. *sigh* I guess even if I consent, if word gets out, he's a done deal. I think he already was in jail before anyway, so that wouldn't be good!
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reader, AskEve  +, writes (9 April 2007):
 The age of consent means the legal age you have to be in order to do something. Different countries have different laws. The age of consent to buy ciggarettes in the UK is 16 but it may vary in other countries and the age of consent (legal age) to buy alcohol is 18 (21 in some stores). Basically, it means the LEGAL age that you have to be before you are legally able to do something.
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reader, ChiRaven +, writes (9 April 2007):
 Usually, that's what it means. If you're getting down to serious cases, however, you may need to consult a competent attorney as to what the exact meaning of the statute is and means in your case. It will cost you some bucks, but that's WAY better than making just a LITTLE mistake that could possibly end up with your guy getting labeled as a sex offender for the rest of his life and never being able to get a job again, isn't it?
This country has gone nuts on the subject of sex offenders lately. Don't you or your partner be a victim of this paranoia.
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reader, chrissy32789 +, writes (9 April 2007):
 Age consent means that you can give consent to have sex but no you can not have sex with anyone 18 or older cause they will charge that person with charges, but you can have sex with someone 16-17...if you was under the age of 16 and someone truned you in for having sex with someone that person can get introuble the laws are hard but look it up go to www.google.com age "consent" and they will have a chart there telling you the age range in you state all states are diffrent about this kind of thing....well i hope i helped
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