Complete Definition of "age of consent"

English

Noun
age of consent

  1. law The age at which a person is legally considered to be mature enough to engage willingly in sexual intercourse.

Note: The term is used to indicate the age at which it is no longer a crime for someone else to engage in consensual sexual intercourse with the person who is still younger than the age of consent, as they are considered statutorily a victim of a crime, because by law they are considered incapable of giving permission to someone else to engage in sexual intercourse with them.

Translations
trans-top|an age at which one is legally mature enough to have sex
Danish: den seksuelle lavalder
Icelandic: samræðisaldur m, lögriðilsaldur m (used colloquially and jokingly)
trans-mid
trans-bottom

See also
age of majority
have sex
statutory rape
jailbait

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