Turkish court ruling 'lowers age of consent to 12'

[shadowmouse]

My overall point is that its not surprising that a Muslim state has no problems with lowering the age of consent so low when a major part of their teachings is that its fine to have sex with 9 year olds.

First, it is helpful to read the article this all goes back to. As I linked earlier, the article itself used a clickbait headline, while actually saying:

The age of sexual consent in Turkey remains 18 years

Right there, in the damned article, it says that the headline is not actually even close to correct. You fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

Next, I'm pretty sure even the Muslims would be hard put to accurately asses what almost 100% of imams preach. The bible happens to be full of its share of things that do not translate well to modern times (actual details depend, of course on which bible we're talking about), but although preachers and priests may tell stories from the bible, we probably don't say they -- to give an example -- promote incest. Things in the various holy books, even when those holy books are said to be the actual word of god, tend to be explained as symbols. I gather that the story of Aisha is used in a generally positive way.

Turkey is considered a Muslim country

Only by the very superficial. Turkey is a country with a Muslim past and a large, even overwhelming, percentage of Muslims. It is not, however, literally a Muslim country. In the same way, the US may have many Christians, but as a technical matter we are not Christian.

[falagar112]

That Romeo and Juliet thingie applies already to several countries.
There is NO reason to scrap age of consent as it actually protects kids.

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Oh yeah absolutely. I find the practice of "judging actions of the past with the moral outlook of today" very dishonest.

I know, I live in a country with a law like that. The problem won't be solved by "several" countries having this, it needs to be a globally accepted thing, and then the AoC law wouldn't make sense anymore. It would just be replaced with one that protects the kids from predators yet does not condemn kids having romantic/sexual relations with eachother. Because I think that is healthy - trying to stop them will just hurt your parenting & might give them the idea that sex is bad and something to be ashamed of. Exactly why so many of them are addicted to porn and then think that sex in real life is "just like in the movies".

What especially makes me laugh is when people collectively complain about a nipple shown in a cutscene in a videogame, whereas they don't see the problem with protagonist butchering thousands living beings in the same game... And that's in the world in which sex is the only reason we exist, and killing is one of the main reasons we die!

Some backwards society we live in.

My personal opinion (as in, take with a grain of salt..!) - the mass killings in video games removes a certain part of empathy from kids, they link it with all the wars and killing going on in the news - and consider it to be normal. After all, nothing tells them otherwise. While condoning sex (and in such a two faced way.. because hey, female nipples are bad and male nipples are fashion, like really?) gives them the idea they have to hide it, not talk about it & end up developing major sexual barriers later on in life. Seen this happen to many young people around me in my own teens.

From personal experience, I was a gamer as a kid as well, and I had plenty of conversations about wars and whatnot with my parents and schoolmates, yet sex was something nobody talked about. We all knew the kids that were together and had sex.. we just didn't discuss it.

[Darsithis]

After reading over this myself it is clear that the title is incorrect and this entire thread is untrue. The Age of Consent is not 12 in Turkey, nor was this thread a license to bash Muslims.

Closing.