{"id":439,"date":"2002-03-14T11:00:52","date_gmt":"2002-03-14T19:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/age-of-consent\/"},"modified":"2019-11-26T15:25:15","modified_gmt":"2019-11-26T23:25:15","slug":"age-of-consent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2002\/03\/14\/age-of-consent\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of consent"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:9201,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260310020235\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-10 17:21:01&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-23 07:40:06&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-26 10:49:03&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-30 04:02:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 17:54:42&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 20:38:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-10 20:38:07&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16412,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2002\\\/US\\\/03\\\/13\\\/dear.abby.arrest.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.cnn.com\\\/2002\\\/US\\\/03\\\/13\\\/dear.abby.arrest.ap\\\/index.html&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16413,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15501&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20260314085111\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15501&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/comments.mefi\\\/15501&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 06:48:04&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:49&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16414,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/15501#242165&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051207085837\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/15501&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 08:50:31&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:55&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16415,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/15501#242288&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051207085837\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/15501&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 08:50:38&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-28 06:48:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:48&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:16416,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com\\\/mefi\\\/15501#242398&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20051207085837\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.metafilter.com:80\\\/mefi\\\/15501&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-14 08:50:39&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-07 05:03:53&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:200},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m liking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/\" title=\"Community blog and discussion.\">MetaFilter<\/a> more and more. Today they posted a link to a story about &#8216;Dear Abby&#8217; turning in a man who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2002\/US\/03\/13\/dear.abby.arrest.ap\/index.html\" title=\"I've sometimes wondered about what kind of letters she gets that don't get printed.\">confessed an attraction to child pornography<\/a>. The related <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/comments.mefi\/15501\">MeFi<\/a> discusson has raised some <em>extremely<\/em> interesting points, touching on some of the many societal and cultural variables surrounding &#8216;age of consent&#8217; (highlights being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/15501#242165\" title=\"By hincandenza\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/15501#242288\" title=\"By RobertLoch\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.metafilter.com\/mefi\/15501#242398\" title=\"By jonpollard\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MeFi posted a link to a story about &#8216;Dear Abby&#8217; turning in a man who confessed an attraction to child pornography. The related discusson has raised some extremely interesting points, touching on some of the many societal and cultural variables surrounding &#8216;age of consent&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2028],"tags":[39],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links","tag-links"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}