Consent

Consent
A concise revision of my opinion on consent.
Laws vary state to state on who can consent to various things. In my opinion there should be one age of consent. One of the major issues with consent is sex with minors. My question is how many sexual teenagers are charged with this. For the government to say minors can only consent to sex with minors is discrimination. What the government needs to do is make a law that only people of a certain age and above can consent to sex.
This would free the courts case load of cases that shouldn’t really be there. It has been said that after the age of thirteen a child has learned everything they are going to from their parents and from that point on is putting into practice what they have learned and experimenting for themselves. If parents took responsibility for what their children know of the world and sex there would be fewer teens having sex and the age of the partner would be of no consequence.
The second point would be the nature of human beings. A majority of the males in human society align better with females that are younger than themselves. Generally it is only of two to five years difference although it is still there. By current laws 19 and 20 year old adults cannot pursue females because by average of 3 years what comes natural has been deemed illegal.
There are rare incidences that the difference is closer to 10 to 15 years, when it comes to love age has no definite ages, but what of those who would use an innocent young woman? Simple, there is already a law that covers that ground for all, it is statutory rape. Statutory rape does cover manipulating someone into sexual acts that they would not consider otherwise. This may take a guardian to note and bring up to authorities when this case happens but it sole basis is on behavior and action not just age.
The reason for the natural inclination of the age difference is maturity. Woman mature quicker than men, to be with someone of the same maturity level or a needed maturity level causes the desire for a person of a different age.
Personally I would say the law should give the freedom of consent to people who are somewhere between 14 to 16 and older, the exact of where in that three year range it should be I would leave up to the government to argue out and preferably do a study to determine at which age a teen knows themselves well enough to give consent.