Originally posted by DirtBag:

Nigeria: The age of consent is 11.
Angola: The age of consent is 12.
Philippines: The age of consent is 12, though there are ongoing efforts to raise it.
Japan: The age of consent is 13, though some prefectures have additional laws effectively raising it to 16 or 18.
Mexico: The age of consent varies by state, with some as low as 12 and others up to 18.
Most developed countries: The age of consent is typically between 14 and 16.

No That is your view of thing today because of the mixed cultures. This was normal and is normal where people do not live as long. This is a normal biological process that starts in teens and is seen in all of the animal species of the world including Humans.
The age of consent is do to the ones in control.

Originally posted by DirtBag:

Are these countries full of pedo's

You could also ask: "Is the church full of pedos?"

It's probably a matter of definition, regional standards and one's own personal moral compass.

Yes.

Originally posted by DirtBag:

Are these countries full of pedo's
Nigeria: The age of consent is 11.
Angola: The age of consent is 12.
Philippines: The age of consent is 12, though there are ongoing efforts to raise it.
Japan: The age of consent is 13, though some prefectures have additional laws effectively raising it to 16 or 18.
Mexico: The age of consent varies by state, with some as low as 12 and others up to 18.
Most developed countries: The age of consent is typically between 14 and 16.

Consent doesn't mean attraction. Attraction is what determines pedophilia.

Plus if the two people married are the same age, it's not pedophilia.

And just because they can consent, doesn't mean they will consent.

And you could get married and just not have sex...(or otherwise abuse them)

Anyway, to answer your question, not it's not related. They don't magically become pedophiles just because you legalize pedophilia.

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Originally posted by DirtBag:

Nigeria: The age of consent is 11.
Angola: The age of consent is 12.
Philippines: The age of consent is 12, though there are ongoing efforts to raise it.
Japan: The age of consent is 13, though some prefectures have additional laws effectively raising it to 16 or 18.
Mexico: The age of consent varies by state, with some as low as 12 and others up to 18.
Most developed countries: The age of consent is typically between 14 and 16.

No That is your view of thing today because of the mixed cultures. This was normal and is normal where people do not live as long. This is a normal biological process that starts in teens and is seen in all of the animal species of the world including Humans.
The age of consent is do to the ones in control.

Interesting

Im not sure, what does "age of consent" exactly mean in a legal context?
Because 14-16 is definitly not true when I look at the developed countries. Sexual activity with an adult 18+ and a minor is illegal pretty much everywhere I could think of.

Japan is one of the most backward countries in the world.

Buddhism is evil. Stay away from their stone age beliefs.

There are two things to be noted about Japan:

The first is that while the age of consent was raised in 2023. It's at 16 now. Canada did something similar in 2006: Raised it from 14 to 16.

The other is that even before than, the Japanese prefectures generally had a higher age of consent than the national age of consent, so throughout most of the nation having sex with a 13 year old wasn't legal. Maybe in some rural areas which hadn't updated their age of consent laws in a long time.

You have to keep in mind that the U.S.A. has a system where there is basically no national age of consent (with limited exceptions where federal jurisdiction attaches), and then each state sets its own age of consent.

In the U.S. system where there basically is not a national age of consent, because it isn't linked to the enumerated powers, a state could theoretically lower its age of consent as low as it wants. It could be 12 or even lower. In the Japanese system which had a national age of consent, the floor was at 13, no matter what the prefectures wanted.

It's a culture thing. REALLY 14 to 16 year old girls SHOULD be fooling around with guys close to their age or within similar age range to encourage HEALTHY breeding. They need to be spending that short time they have to breed HEALTHY offspring fooling around with 14 to 20 year old males. It's IRRESPONSIBLE to keep the young women away from a HEALTHY lifestyle.

Most 16 to 18 year old girls still look like they're 14 year old girls. VERY few age, mature, develop quickly. Even models claiming to be 18 years old appear to be mid 20's. Very few develop and fill out that quickly, those females are the EXCEPTION.

Again, it's a culture thing, it really depends on how the culture views it. Ohio it's 16 and some states still allow consensual incest by the age of 16. BAD idea, yet they allow it. Family Guy made some jokes of it that probably went over most heads because how many people know Rhode Island state laws?

Originally posted by DirtBag:

Nigeria: The age of consent is 11.
Angola: The age of consent is 12.
Philippines: The age of consent is 12, though there are ongoing efforts to raise it.
Japan: The age of consent is 13, though some prefectures have additional laws effectively raising it to 16 or 18.
Mexico: The age of consent varies by state, with some as low as 12 and others up to 18.
Most developed countries: The age of consent is typically between 14 and 16.

So don't go to those countries if you don't like how they do things. That's the way life works.

Or start your own country so you can make your own rules.

BTW your username is Dirtbag ... I can smell the Hypocrisy from miles away.

Oh, let me add this ... now you know why there are a LOT of pissed off Americans when the Biden administration left the border wide open without these people learning what it means to be an American and live in America.

A percentage of those men came in from countries where they age of consent is a lot lower there than it is here, and a percentage of those people don't give 2 ♥♥♥♥♥ about the law in America either.

This is one of the biggest reasons why the Democrats should never be anywhere near power and control ever again.

Looks like someone tripped AI, I was reading this post until the full line of "This comment is awaiting analysis by our automated content check system. It will be temporarily hidden until we verify that it does not contain harmful content (e.g. links to websites that attempt to steal information)."

I have travelled to Japan and Philippines, both countries still have lower age of consent. The respective governments may have stated they would make changes are doing so to make good on the world outside of their countries. In reality nothing changes. These laws are unenforceable in those two countries.

Philippines in particular, poverty is very noticeable, outside of few elites, most of the people there are so poor that age of consent is least of their worries. One area that is very common in Asia is police bribery for any offenses not limited to pedophillia. If one has the means and a lot of money by Asian standards, then one is pretty much untouchable.