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In the past, France had lacked a specific age of consent law. The main reason to that was because a lot of people respected pedophilia, and others genuinely believed that children were able to consent. However, because french people are becoming aware of the significance of this issue, people protested for a clear age of consent, which has been declared as 15 recently.

This shows us how important accurate education and awareness of issues are. As more people were aware of how cases like these were tried unjustly and were able to obtain accurate statistics on the age of consent, more people protested against the status quo.

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Children are unprepared to give informed consent, and it can be extremely difficult for them to say no to people in positions of authority, or those they trust.

"We must start taking better care of victims. We have to stop asking why: Why were you in the street alone? Why didn’t you scream? Why didn’t you leave?”

“Children are a prime target of sexual predatorThey are vulnerable, helpless, dependent and under the authority of adults. It's easy to manipulate, threaten, and silence them. Because of their immaturity, it is much harder to identify what they have suffered and they are rarely seen as credible when they get to talk.”

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Due to the public outrage caused by the previous rape cases that were tried unjustly, a new law was presented to the Council of Ministers, setting the age of consent to 15.

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A 11 year old girl was raped by a 28 year old man. However, when the case was tried, the man was charged with sexual infraction instead of rape because there was no clear age of consent for sexual acts. This caused outrage and protests in the public.

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Pedophilia was considered to be a right, a freedom, a sexual orientation.

1977: There was a petition passed: "French law recognizes in 13- and 14-year-olds a capacity for discernment that it can judge and punish, but it rejects such a capacity when the child's emotional and sexual life is concerned."

Children and adolescents have the right to a sexual life.

On 1979 there was another petition: "The love of children is also the love of their bodies, and desire and sexual games have their place in the relationship between children and adults."

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The case where 3 children under 5 were sexually abused led France to reconsider children's ability to consent to sexual acts.

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The report on sexual violence in France released by The High Council of Equality prompted many to realize the horror behind the lack of a precise age of consent.

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In recent decades, with more and more unjustly tried rape cases, France's public opinion is taking a turn towards implementing more protection methods for children, like specifying the age of sexual consent etc, but the country's legal institutions have been late to catch on.

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In the present, as concerns about commercial sexual exploitation of children are rising, and increasingly more victims of rape are speaking up, many nations around the world are once again, increasing their age of consent and working together to adopt international instruments to address issues like such.

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The changes towards attitudes in childhood and sexuality in Western countries during the 19th century resulted in the raising of the age of consent.

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In 2005, due to a sexual abuse case that involved 3 children under the age of 5, France established that there should be some age of consent, but never specified what it would be.

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In the 19th century, as issues like rape are becoming more prevalent, France increased the age to be considered a sexual minor from 11 to 13, and later in 1945, to 15. However, because France considered sexual minors to be able to consent, rapists would be charged with sexual infraction.

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Many Western countries, including France, implemented laws to protect rape victims, however, France's laws in the past have considered sexual minors to still be able to give consent. In this case, their perpetrators would be charged with sexual infraction instead of rape.

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In the past, the age on consent in different societies were decided by family or tribal customs. The first recorded age of consent law was from England in 1275 as a provision on rape, which stated that sexual acts with girls aged less than 12, whether with or without her consent, will be considered a minor offense.

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What is it? The age at which a person is considered to be legally competent to consent to sexual acts.
How does it work? People considered sexual minors are automatically regarded as the victim, and the offender will be charged with rape.
Purpose: To protect sexual minors who don't have the ability to consent to sexual acts, unless both are underage.