[Faith Presses On]

I had no idea that France has no age of consent, but it doesn't. It's up to individual judges to decide on apparently a case-by-case basis, and since it's subjective, how often do the subjective views of pedophiles end up legally exonerating them or getting them lighter punishment? This is a somewhat long but revealing look at the dark underbelly of France. They have been dominated by what the article calls "pedocriminals" in high places, especially prominent academics.

[pepsionice]

As much as people want to believe that nations in Europe are run from the top down....I would suggest that most of the countries in Europe tend to have states or regions within the make-up of the country, and they dominate a great deal of the structure of the country.

In the case of France, I might suggest that they reviewed the various acts of ‘maturity’ and couldn’t come to one single conclusion....like buying cigarettes, drinking booze, getting a hunting license, getting a drivers license, and so on. Each wanted a different view of maturity and then this led onto public questions why you couldn’t have one single view or age of maturity.

[Sacajaweau]

I believe the UN is proposing 12 as he age of consent.....for homosexuals.

[freedumb2003]

Well, their new masters have provided them the age of consent.

It is 9.

[Red Badger]

“Oh, brave new world that has such people in it!”...............

[Army Air Corps]

From the article:

Why has the French legal system seemed reluctant to set a specific age of consent? One prominent explanation stems from the attitudes that followed May 1968, when student protests against capitalism, consumerism, and other values and institutions considered elitist and unjust, led to massive demonstrations, strikes, and civil unrest. The protests represented a cultural revolution that would leave a lasting imprint on France's very identity. Salmona said that after 1968, attitudes began to shift: Children were viewed as having the right to be considered sexual beings—in Salmona’s words: “pedophilia was considered a sexual orientation … It was all part of a vision of freedom.”

[jimmygrace]

France wants to compete with Thailand for perv tourism dollars.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Remind me to move to France.

[PapaBear3625]

I'm finding it difficult to believe that France could be this way, without becoming famous as the pedo capital of the world.

And in fact, it ISN'T TRUE. The wiki article about age of consent in France refers to the French penal code, which has (google translate) "The fact, by a major, to exercise without violence, coercion, threat or surprise sexual assault on the person of a minor of fifteen years is punishable by five years of imprisonment and 75 000 euros fine."

So, you CAN go to prison for having sex with a minor under the age of 16. It's just not referred to as "rape".

[anton]

Muslim girls mature fast. So, when they about 6 they are ready for sex. They don’t beg for it like the goats do because of FGM, but they get it just the same.

Now, muslim boys are usually getting sex araound the same age too, but from a different direction.

[Phlap]

To populate the New World back in the 1600’s the French, English and Dutch among others, set young “women” to the colonies basically to have children. The age of consent was not an issue then.

[miniTAX]

“France, Where Age of Consent Is Up for Debate (they’ve never established one)”

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Utter nonsense! Why such stupid drivel is published and worse, believed, is beyond me.

Everybody here in France knows the sexual majority age is 15 and frolicking with adolescents below that age (with their consent, that goes without saying) is pedophilia.
The notion of age of consent is in the law probably since Napolean. “Up for debate” my arse.