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naraburns
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nihil supernum
User ID: 100
nihil supernum
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User ID: 100
I'm not @gattsuru, but I assume the reference to the UK is the Sexual Offences Act 2003, which overhauled their consent structure. It kept the age of general consent at 16, but with penalties for authority figures having sexual contact with under-18s, and established strict liability for such contact with under-13s. But most of the news coverage seems to have been focused on the "equalizing" effect it had on heterosexual versus homosexual contact (previously, the "age of consent" was different in part based on sexuality).
This is presumably related to the movie Blue is the Warmest Color, which portrays a lesbian relationship beginning between a 15-year-old and a woman in her early 20s.
The cultural correlations between homosexual conduct and child abuse are sufficiently strong that even in the mid-20th century it was common to use the word "pederast" to describe a gay man as such. There are various reasons for the perceived correlations, and the "gay rights" movement has worked hard to disentangle the concepts in public perception, which is probably one reason why the Sexual Offences Act was seen as so important at the time. But at the same time, a lot of really popular LGBT media continues to positively portray a variety of statutorily problematic (i.e., ephebophile-not-pedophile) relationships.
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