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goku4ever
Dec 29, 2005, 06:14 AM
I live in the UK where the legal age to have conesntualsex is 16, yet the legal age to enter adult sites is 18. Whats up with that?

Dhylec
Dec 29, 2005, 08:53 AM
'Adult sites at 18' is an assumed 'acceptable' thing to do throughout the world?

goku4ever
Dec 29, 2005, 09:34 AM
your post confused me, are you trying to tell me something or ask me a question?

Dhylec
Dec 29, 2005, 10:00 AM
It's both!
I am saying that it's generally acceptable around the world to impose a minimum 18 year limit on adult sites. Most of these sites (pay or fan) do not want to deal with the troubles, namely legalities, of not complying to such a request. Thus i was asking if you noticed that?

Deathscythealpha
Dec 29, 2005, 11:45 AM
Its a bit of an odd law that seems to have been a hold over from the BBFC liscensing of films and such. 18+ is a standard age that your able to look at Adults performing sexual acts, and is meant to protect minors from being harmed by such images. But it is really stranged that you yourself can perform the acts but not look at it.

I guess that when you hit 18 that is the age you should be considered an adult and mature enough to view those images.

Eihwaz
Dec 29, 2005, 12:06 PM
On 2005-12-29 08:45, Deathscythealpha wrote:
I guess that when you hit 18 that is the age you should be considered an adult and mature enough to view those images.


Yet, two years before that, you're considered mature enough to engage in the activities depicted in such images? Makes sense to me. http://pso-world.com/images/phpbb/icons/smiles/icon_rolleyes.gif

ABDUR101
Dec 29, 2005, 12:30 PM
I think the point is being missed.

The internet has no boundary line, it's called the "world wide web" for a reason. Having 18 as a requirement covers legal bases for countries that don't consider someone an adult until they are 18.

Consider a site that only requires you to be 13 to have sex, thus a site has that as the age limit. It would be against the law for someone in a country where the legal age is 16 or 18.

In effect, it's across the board in such a way to cause less of a hassle with legalities, I'd imagine.

Sock
Dec 29, 2005, 12:51 PM
It really stops kids from looking at porn before they're 18, doesn't it?



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ABDUR101
Dec 29, 2005, 01:45 PM
On 2005-12-29 09:51, Sock wrote:
It really stops kids from looking at porn before they're 18, doesn't it?


Sure, just as much as the legal drinking age stops minors from getting shit-faced. There are laws for necessity, and then there are laws that set a 'standard' of decency.

But all the same, any law can be scoffed at. Like the illegal procurement of drugs and fire-arms.

Kent
Dec 29, 2005, 03:14 PM
In most countries, you're not considered an adult until you're either 18 or 21. In most of the US, and is the most common across the world, the age of consentual sex is 16.

Porn sites basically say 18 or 21 so that they don't get in trouble with anyone, and you have to be 18 or higher to be able to perform in videos like that legally, as part of the laws of pretty much any country out there. Yet, there are still laws in some countries, stating that the legal age of consent is as low as 9. :/ And others have varying ages depending on what type of thing it is that you're consenting to, different ages for heterosexual, homosexual, oral sex, etc.

But yeah, the laws stating that you must be over 18 to view pornography are there so as to protect minors from the content, as required by law, with as little effort as possible.