Consent

Society has a standard of consent that is rediculous. The law makers should come up with an age of consent and stick with it without exception. If they choose 18years old anyone having sex with a minor should be charged(whether they themselves are a minor or not) more realistic they should set the age of consent at about 15 and not worry about it. It is the parents responsibility to insure their child is properly educated about sex, not the governments job to insure that they cover for parental denial.

As many of the laws that govorn children and teenagers the laws on consent are taking the freedom away from the people. There are laws and standards in society that make it the responsibility of someone, not the parent to raise children. Me and my wife found that teachers were telleing our children that they don't need to listen to their parents that we can not make them do chores, their homework etc. The school board wouldn't do anything about it and the courts decided it was needed for children that might be being abused. Needless to say we now home school our children. This is an example of how the government wants to put children in the system and try to raise them itself, but when it doesn't work they point the finger at the parents.

The laws for consent and any of the other ones should be for child safety, but should be excluded to just that, not trying to force parents to raise their children to be how the standards of society dictate.

Sex Anyone?

This is a touchy topic for most of society, however that is a major downfall of society. There are several ways of sexual expression and the idea of denying your true nature never sounded right to me. Several religions and philosophy instruct it followers to ignore or deny that which has been built into our nature. Sex by natures design is pleasurable. Human's by nature are social creature and the closer they get the more the desire grows to be intimate.
Lust is just as valid of a reason to have sex as any other. The save yourself till you get married attitude, I believe, is one of the biggest factors in today's divorce rate. If people could admit that certain people would be a good fuck buddy and not able to be a long term relationship fewer people would marry so they can have sex.

If people could admit they are sexual creatures and it is just a part of their nature there would be less problems. For one thing if it was thought to be a natural act, parents wouldn't squirm at the thought of telling their children about it. Having young teens more educated about sex would lead to teens at least having fewer children of their own as well as less of a delima with having sex before they are truely ready to.

Over all society has turned something natural into an evil act that is to be avoided while the whole time we react sexually everyday and supressing it only causes more anxiety and stress in living life.