fascinating info from teh link someone provided. it offers this, concerning the age of consent:

Although many young people are mature enough to know how to deal with the consequences of sex, some teens are not grown up enough to know that their actions have consequences. Age of consent laws are there to stop young people from being exploited by adults.

if exploitation of young people by adults is the target, laws going after pornographers would be better suited to this end, rather than age of consent laws.

anybody catch the newly opened federal case against max hardcore? he dressed his 18 year old "actress" up like a little girl & had her tell the camera she was 13 before he had sex with her, sodomized her, and p*ssed in her mouth.

we're so lucky to have guys like this in our world. and it's all OK, because she was 18!

yay!