June 16, 2023

"The very fact that the age of consent was set at 13 created the societal mood that teenagers starting at 13 can be exploited sexually and be viewed sexually."

"It has created a culture and mood where everyone assumes that teenagers have the ability to make decisions around sexual consent, and therefore people don’t question their sexual exploitation.... In Japan, there is a saying, 'Don’t wake someone sleeping,' which is often used around sex education — meaning that if someone isn’t sexually active, there is no need to teach them about sex and awaken them to it."

Said lawprof Hiroko Goto, of Chiba University, quoted in "Japan (finally) changes a century-old law: The age of consent is now 16" (WaPo).

At 13, Japan had the lowest age of consent among the Group of Seven advanced economies and among the lowest in the developed world. The age of consent is 16 in Canada and most states in the United States; 15 in France; and 14 in Germany and Italy.... 

36 comments:

gilbar said...

13 year olds can STILL decide to alter their gender though.. Right?
13 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their breasts though.. Right?
13 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their dicks though.. Right?
11 year olds can STILL decide to alter their gender though.. Right?
11 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their breasts though.. Right?
11 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their dicks though.. Right?
9 year olds can STILL decide to alter their gender though.. Right?
9 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their breasts though.. Right?
9 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their dicks though.. Right?

if a 5 year old is old enough.. Isn't a 5 year old old enough???

hombre said...

Democrats will see that as a challenge to reduce the age of consent in the US to 13 or lower.

Now that the Japanese have gone all regressive, somebody has to show the way. (Trannies and pedos applaud.)

Lloyd W. Robertson said...

If trans activists can say children can consent to radical medical treatments, why is it not relatively easy to say they can consent to sex? As they finish up mopping-up operations on pederasty in the Catholic Church, the woke may support the new pederasty.

rhhardin said...

It varies with the assumptions about the innocence of children, probably. The reflex is an theory about the evil of adults to account for things.

My impression was that children used to be viewed as feral needing civilizing, which sort of reverses things. Maybe pregnancy was a civilizing influence.

Consent might be too modern-legal to apply at all in an analog age.

BIII Zhang said...

The age of consent in Mexico is 12.

And that's where most Americans are coming from nowadays.

I noticed the Post elided over that one.

RideSpaceMountain said...

Japan is not interested in globohomo, but globohomo is very interested in Japan. Just look at the recent fight over immigration reform in the diet. Good for Japan. Baby steps, but a plurality appear to be holding the line for the time being.

Jersey Fled said...

So no 3rd graders, huh?

n.n said...

The incongruities of law, ethics, and morality.

Ice Nine said...

>Japanese law requires two conditions for a crime to be punishable as sexual assault: nonconsensual sex and proof that it was “significantly difficult to reject” the sexual attack, either due to physical violence or threat of such violence.<

Kudos to Japan. This is exactly as it should be.

The MeToo crowd hates it of course.

Oh Yea said...

We had a saying in the day that “15 would get you 20”.

Jason said...

Well, you know what happened after that one time they awakened that sleeping giant.

rcocean said...

So if Japan had raised it from 13 to 14, like Germany and Italy, they'd have been OK? That's what the article seems to imply.

BTW, why are talking to Kids about "Gay Sex" in Florida at 10 years old? Puberty isn't at 10, and consent is 16.

David53 said...

When I was stationed in Japan in the early 80s they had public porn magazine vending machines often beside the beer vending machines.

Be careful if you google "Japanese porn vending machines".

Gator said...

You are not nearly mature until at least 16. The groomers are going younger and younger

Tom T. said...

Sailor Moon could not be reached for comment.

Lincolntf said...

30 or so years ago I was living in Germany and was kinda shocked that college/military aged men would openly date high school girls. I went to one "hill party" (basically a kegger in the woods) and was shocked that it was behind a high school and half the girls were students there. I was 21, I left real quick. I'm pretty sure that U.S. soldiers were held to the over-16 standard, but I don't remember.

Robert Marshall said...

Since Japanese young people have reportedly lost interest in sex, (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-japan-stopped-having-sex), the age of consent might not mean much.

George said...

Seems like the age of consent level were set by males

n.n said...

That gives boys and girls some additional time to mitigate the risk of social progress and contagion that has run amuck in modern life.

madAsHell said...

Didn't they also suffer from the lowest birth rate???

I mean.......I think you're not giving ANY context!!

Spiros said...

The age of consent in Delaware was 7 years up until the 1970s. That sounds terrible but it only applies to rape. At the time, rape of children less than seven years old was subject to the death penalty in Delaware.

FYI Ron DeSantis signed a bill allowing for the death penalty for child rapists.

Michael said...


Think about it. Almost every other species on this planet starts to reproduce shortly after the onset of puberty. I'm not sayin' 13 year olds should have sex lounges at middle school. However, let's not forget we're asking teens to suppress the effects of some powerful hormones.

traditionalguy said...

That would have solved Epstein’s difficulties. The much idolized RBG fought for lowering the age of consent to 14…for starters. The newly mega rich need the young stuff to spend their millions on. And RBG understood the Roman Empire’s sexual customs of the Caesars. What a great Justice.

Goju said...

The national age of consent was 13. Individual states had their own age limits. Some as high as 18.

Freder Frederson said...

13 year olds can STILL decide to alter their gender though.. Right?
13 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their breasts though.. Right?
13 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their dicks though.. Right?
11 year olds can STILL decide to alter their gender though.. Right?
11 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their breasts though.. Right?
11 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their dicks though.. Right?
9 year olds can STILL decide to alter their gender though.. Right?
9 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their breasts though.. Right?
9 year olds can STILL decide to chop off their dicks though.. Right?

if a 5 year old is old enough.. Isn't a 5 year old old enough???


The answer to all these questions is, except the first, is no.

mongo said...

Some states make it ok for teens above a certain age to have sex with people about their age, but not with adults. I think it’s colloquially referred to as the Romeo and Juliet provision. This makes good sense to me.

n.n said...

Seems like the age of consent level were set by males

Masculinists for females, feminists for females... and their trans/homosexual allies for both boys and girls?

n.n said...

You are not nearly mature until at least 16. The groomers are going younger and younger

Trans/homosexual groomers soon forgotten... or else. The liberalese of not rape-rape, too. And, of course, the unrelenting march of social progress. But, at least the male will not suffer under a "burden", and the female will learn to cope, maybe.

Gahrie said...

I was living in Germany and was kinda shocked that college/military aged men would openly date high school girls.

I went to high school on an air force base in the UK, and lots of my classmates dated G.I.s. Some of them ended up getting married.

Smilin' Jack said...

Mary had Jesus when she was about 14. But I guess the statute of limitations has run out on God.

Marcus Bressler said...

When I was 17, I began to have sex with a 13 year old. She didn't look 13 and she was not a virgin and had been sexually active for a while. When one of my friends warned us that I could be charged with statutory rape, she ventured, "You can't rape the willing!" and giggled.
We remained friends for over 40 years until she passed away, mostly from the effects of a hard life abusing her body with alcohol, cigs and drugs.

MarcusB. THEOLDMAN

Bunkypotatohead said...

With the serious decline of Japan's population, they should probably be encouraging the kids to get more active. Start them young. The girls are menstruating for a reason.

planetgeo said...

I am now reminded daily of the Psych 101 studies of rats being placed in very crowded conditions leading to hyper-aggressive and hyper-sexual behavior. My take on it now is that for humans it's not just physical overcrowding but also incessant social media interaction that does it. Apparently, were just bigger, somewhat smarter, over-stimulated rats.

Oso Negro said...

The age of consent was 10 in England for about a thousand years until first wave feminist do-goodies decided the poor were having altogether too much fun.

JAORE said...

It's the age of fondling and sniffing that is in question today.

NKP said...

Re porn magazine vending machines often beside the beer vending machines.

I seem to recall those "porn" mags having no actual hardcore content. Some Manga publications might be more disturbing.

Some popular sex mags of the day were simply "candid" photos of amorous couples surprised in places like the large Aoyama Cemetary at night. Not much private space in Tokyo. BTW, Hachiko is not a myth. The actual dog is buried in Aoyama with his master.

The beer machines might seem more worrisome to parents of younger teens. The thing is; much of Japanese Culture is self-regulating. Shame is still a real thing and it's more than personal. It affects the entire family.