Top 10 Reasons Why the Age of Consent Should Not Be Raised to 20
DISCLAIMER: I in no way think we should lower the age of consent to 17, 16 or even lower (I don't encourage that at all but I definitely don't encourage that we raise it too high to 20 or even 21 because humans physically become adults at 18).I am aware that most 18-year-olds aren't mature enough to handle certain situations but here's a little advice from me. If you are going to date someone that young, don't manipulate them. Help them out with experience and try to save sex for when you both get married because they might not be sexually experienced yet.
In many ways I agree with this list. There are some people right now trying to raise a lot of 18+ things to 21+ things right now, and it's kind of silly, like if you're really gonna just not let 18 year olds have any adult privileges than just raise the adult age back up to 21, it's that simple.
Exactly. It should be noted that I mentioned in a comment on my old account that my sister's 20-year-old boyfriend was in a children's hospital last year. They didn't let him back in after he turned 21. Just wanna point that out there.
Yeah, it kinda does.
No they aren't.
I'm just saying that if 18-year-olds were treated like children then that would literally mean sexual relationships between 18-year-olds and underage teens would be normalized and it's something we don't want to encourage it actually is pedophilia.
And I'm not saying we should allow teen sex to happen, it's just that 18-year-olds really shouldn't be dating minors because it isn't normal.