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Originally Posted by rhetorical
When I lived in England it was 16. I am not sure that 18 is such a great number. I will agree with you on 13. BTW, the tea party analogy was just to point out that authority does need to be questioned or you wind up with shit like Homeland Security.
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IMHO, you question authority when it matters. It's just like letting your parents / wife / girlfriend / whatever make minor choices for you when it doesn't matter too much. It gives them the satisfaction of being in control, and lets you get on with the important stuff. 18 may just be a number, but it allows the government and the courts to have a measuring stick (however arbitrary) and that let's them think they told us what to do. It isn't an important thing in the end, if a girl wants to get naked and fuck on camera at 17, just get her to wait until her 18th birthday and make a real party out of it.
The English "16" rule was kind of weird, because the girl could in theory get topless for pictures, but legally, she couldn't enter into a contract to do it herself, it would require a parent (because minors cannot enter into a contract). So all of the topless Page3 girls you saw were there with full parental permission.
Not porn related, but an interesting (and sad) twist on legal age is here:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/montreal/st...errot1106.html
Even though it was the guy's birthday when the accident happened, he is attempting to get it tried in a juvenile court, because the statued reads in a way that includes your birthday in the previous year ("an adult is over 18" sort of wording).