See, you're at it again. I've practically ignored the discussion re. Johnson yet you are now saying I'm trying to excuse him. You really need to stop it. And that even aside from the fact that you are considering all 15 yrs old to be of equal sexual and mental maturity, which is clearly not the case anywhere.
My point throughout has been, as I've stated, that the age of consent in the UK (as it is everywhere else I imagine) is based around religious and cultural mores rather than scientific or medical evidence, which is undoubtedly contrary. The fact that the age of consent in many other countries, even those of similar cultures (e.g. Canada, 14 yrs) is far less would seem to indicate that the age of consent is based on British conservatism rather than logic. That is the debate in which I'm interested, that there is no consensus on what is a reasonable age.
So are you actually disgusted that men may become involved with girls under the age of legal consent (16), truly believing that girls under that age are too immature for sexual relations or is it just that you are indignant that men (of any age - age being irrelevant in the eyes of the UK law, though I've just seen that is not the case in Germany for example) may be breaking the law here and it is the fact they are law-breakers that has you so irate ?
