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 Laura Perrins highlights how the Russell Brand scandal has been another excuse for the Guardianistas to roll out their calls for lowering the age of consent, and why this should be resisted.
https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/arguments-to-lower-the-age-of-consent-are-naive-and-dangerous/ 
 I might be missing something, but I didn’t see any current arguments in favour of lowering the age of consent in that article. The current stuff was about staggered consent starting at 16. The calls to lower it were in the 70s and one guy from a decade ago.