[HPforGrownups] Re: Coming Of Age

[The Crashing Boar]

No: HPFGUIDX 75459


  From: Susan Atherton 
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  They may be others that I've forgotten, and unless they've changed the rules when I haven't been looking, there is no age of consent on female homosexual intercourse because Queen Victoria didn't believe women would do that and didn't make it legal or illegal when the legislation was written. (Makes you wonder what old Albert was like in the sack, really.)
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  She was actually supposed to have asked the Ministers who brought the Bill for her perusal to explain how it was possible, and rather than try to explain it, they removed it.  (Dawn)
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  Everything used to be 21 at one time, then they started bringing things down in dribs and drabs until the only things left at 21 are things people don't want to do until they're 21 anyway<<snip>>>>
  Susan

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  Actually, 21 was the MINIMUM age of majority for possession of property (and with it the ability to vote or enter Parliment), inheritence and the end of Parental Responsibilty until the Victorian Era.  Most other things weren't regulated.  The Victorians were the 'great' legislators, bringing in a legal age of consent (there wasn't one before then), child employment laws, voting was extended to all MEN aged over 21, Licensing and alcohol laws regulating the sale, age limits and hours of purchase, as well as thousands of other things.  

  You can start working limited hours (there are other restrictions too) at age 13 with permission from both a parent and the local Education Authority (this reflects the old minimum school leaving age, which was changed while my father was still at school), and can be issued with a NI No. at that time.

  Come to think of it, the Ministry of Magic resembles the early Victorian Parliament, etc., more than the modern one, except for the presence of women.

  Dawn




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