Why should the age of consent be 18. Because at this point people are legally acknowledged to be mature enough to enter into adult things like military service and legally binding contracts on their own.
Secondly, the last thing this world needs is more bastards spawned by bastards who will go on to spawn more bastards. I'm sorry that the language is harsh, but the data is there. People who conceive children before marriage or underage in a broken home are far more likely to do the same damn thing. I'm sorry, but I don't feel like helping an already gigantic problem with bastardity(is that a word? Well it is now.)
Thirdly, just because something is consensual doesn't mean it can't mess your life up. Kinky sex and the buying and selling of drugs are consensual, victimless acts and in the latter case crime. They still can damage people.
/not against drugs or kinky sex. Just gotta be 18 and 21.
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R.I.P. H.S.T.
I wanna have El Scrabino's man babies.
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