Eighteen seems way too old for the age of consent. You may not give your own son or daughter bidding to do so until he/she is eighteen, but we're talking about the law here. It's mostly there to protect younger children from harm. Fourteen may be too young to be doing that sort of stuff, but I think a hard punishment from their parents seems well more than enough..it doesn't seem right for them to be in trouble under the law.

It is true that they are naive and impressionable. And so are many eighteen year-olds, but I don't think it should be against the law to have sex for eighteen year olds. Fourteen year-olds are old enough to think for themselves, and indeed it's that age that they begin to rebel from their parents. They're old enough not to be emotionally harmed by exposure to sex (and most of them probably look at pornography and masturbate anyway).

Arguing for the age of consent to be at fourteen isn't saying that it's okay for them to have sex. It's just saying that such should be up to the bidding of the parents, rather than the government intruding into such private business. I can only understand when the government intrudes to prevent sex acts onto children young enough to emotionally scar them, but at around fourteen and beyond, I think it should be up to people's private families. But to me I think fifteen (maybe sixteen) is a little better of an age of consent.