I just finished watching "The Imitation Game". Immediatly after, I did some research on Alan Turing's life and about this 19 year old he had sex with.
That's when I came across this article by an Antifeminist blog:
http://www.returnofkings.com/26006/...t-another-attack-against-male-heterosexuality
Feminism debate aside, here's the interesting quote:
"Homosexuality was decriminalized in 1967 but with a higher age of consent (21) than for heterosexuals. It was then lowered to 18 in 1994 and finally ‘equalized’ in the year 2000. Does an unequal age of consent discriminate against homosexuals? First of all, as we know that the legal system effectively treats the age of consent as applying only to male ‘predators’, then we should not see an unequal age of consent as being between homosexuals and heterosexuals, but rather as applying different ages for boys and girls. And this inequality does have the rationality of recognizing the established truth that teenage boys develop significantly slower towards their physical, sexual, and psychological maturity than do teenage girls. Unequal treatment based upon sex or ‘sexual orientation’ is not discriminatory if it discriminates upon the basis of a relevant difference. As emotional and sexual maturity is the primary justification for the age of consent in the first place, the scientific fact that boys reach maturity later than girls means that, actually, an equal age of consent discriminates against heterosexuals.
We should also note the ‘imbalance in power’ that existed between Alan Turing, 40 year old computer genius and professor of mathematics, and his 19 year old sex partner – a mere labourer. This is the other, related, feminist justification for the age of consent, and it does not shine a favourable moral light upon Turing’s relationship with the boy".
While 'quicker' is not the word I'd use, we do know that girls' brains starts maturing earlier than boys'.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/sci...mature-quicker-than-boys-scientists-find.html
Do you think this justifies different ages of consent?
Girl's brains start maturing at the age of 10. Is the correct age the one which the brain is completely mature or the one which it starts the process? Does the former even exist?
I made the same questions on a brazillian board, and one of the readers think this justifies the conservative negative view on homossexuality. Roughly translating:
"Think of it, a straight man and a gay man are attracted to teenagers around the age of 15-19. While the straight man is in fact attracted to mentally and sexually mature individuals, the same cannot be said about the gay man. Since it is natural for straights and gays to be attracted to teenagers around this age, this shows that homosexuality is somehow negative".
What are your thoughts on the matter? Please let me know.