The age of consent at which an individual is considered legally old enough to participate in sexual activity varies from country to country around the world.

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the world.

Can minors consent to sexual activity with an adult or even another teen? Consent laws were created to protect children from statutory rape, or sex with adults, but they still don’t protect ...

The age of consent for sex is different in different countries. India has set 18 as the age of consent, whereas it is 16 in Britain and 14 in Germany and China.

Japanese lawmakers implemented regulation Friday that raises the national age of consent from 13 to 16 and rewrites how the country defines sex crimes. The change was long sought by members of the … ...

In most countries, the age of consent is between 16 and 18, but there are outliers. And in some countries, different restrictions apply depending on the gender and sexuality of the people involved.

For more than a century, states and countries have been raising and standardizing the legal age of consent. Horny teenagers are being thrown in with pedophiles.

A panel in Japan’s Ministry of Justice has proposed raising the age of consent in the country from 13 to 16 in a shakeup of the country’s sex offense laws. The overhaul comes after a series of ...

Japan has raised the age of sexual consent from 13 to 16 in a major overhaul of the sex crime laws in the country. On Friday, Japanese lawmakers adopted the legislation which also clarifies rape ...

With Iraq considering lowering the marriage age for girls to nine, Newsweek looks at marriage and consent laws around the world.