The answer is personal choice. Age of consent laws do not "mistreat" a valid issue. In fact, they represent just one treatment of the matrix of discursive, cultural bullshit that is sexuality and consent. Both "sexuality" and "consent" are names attached to desires and behaviours which problematise said and ultimately enslave their subjects. They are both good examples of where language, far from helping in a descriptive sense, serves as a handle for leveraging disciplinary power over individuals, "lesser" identities, etc. |