Do Age of Consent Laws Affect Gay Teens?
Do Age of Consent Laws Affect Gay Teens? Monday May 3, 2010#spacer{clear:left}#abc #sidebar{margin-top:1.5em}zSB(3,3) Short answer: Yes. Here’s the longer one: The age of consent is the age that a person can legally agree to have sex. A person over the age of consent who has sex with someone under the age of consent can be charged with a crime (often called statutory rape) for having sex with the younger person, even if the younger person agreed to have sex. These laws impact both gay and straight teens. One of the most well-known gay teens to be affected was an 18-year-old Kansas boy named Matthew Limon. Limon received received a 17 year sentence for having sex with a younger boy. Due to inequities in the law, this sentence was far longer than it would have been had Limon has sex with an underage girl. Ultimately, after the famous
