AoC or age of consent is a good thing, but the concept has been distorted for a porn culture, and social media porn; which makes consent a joke.

AOc or age of consent came from a good place. In the past, girls, mostly girls (as boys were considered inferior as child-bearers) were considered nothing, and married off as young as 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years old in a typical case, or in a western world considered ready for marriage at 12/13. It was needed as both genders needed time to develop physically and mentaly, to be able to give, and have full consent to enter a sexual relationship; without any manipulation, or dehumanization, in which women were used as mere child-bearers, and men would benefit from their body as being free labor, and having sex with a child. Prior to this tought, marriage was about politics, money; and gender was considered nothing, even in Christianity where mostly girls were married as children, and forced to child bearing, and if the man dies, the girl would be married to his brother or cousin, as child widow. <br><br>However, with social media, and the internet, and how it is marketed towards minors, everything is sexualized. Girls are bombarded with images of them sexualizing themselves on IG, TikTok, etc. And boys are bombarded with porn (both girls and boys), and girls are bombarded to watch porn to be better in bed (it is not true, and it is an absolute lie). And both are bombarded with "consent", and how sexy it is to talk dirty, and that consent is sexy, but consent is a social construct, and it is distorted. Minors do not have a voice, and they do not have consent, but they are bombarded with sexuality, and are sexualizing themselves. <br><br>This is exactly why rape is so normalized, and infidelity. Young people are hypersexualized, but do not know anything about intimacy, and personal space, and boundaries. And most of them are troubled, and have mental issues because of it. It is a meme to see people "discovery" themselves at 14. And it is a norm to use sexting, dirty talk, naked pics, etc. at 14, 15, 16, 17. <br><br>It is not only wrong, but also makes consent a joke. Minors do not know anything about consent, and are at the age of vulnerability and development. So many minors are in sexual relationships in which consent is not given; but they are rather blackmailed, or manipulated, into it. So many girls are in relationships in which they are genuinely abused, and are afraid to talk. So many girls are manipulated into sex because the guy in the relationship will leave if she does not put out. And guys get raped too, a lot (but no one gives a fuck honestly). <br><br>The concept of AoC was to protect minors, but the minors are thrown into hypersexualization instead of education, and intimacy, and space, and boundaries. <br><br>This is why so many people cheat, and so many have issues with intimacy, and so many have issues with boundaries, and so many have issues with consent. So many people are troubled in their relationships, and are abused; and it is mostly because they are considered as "consenting adults" to be sexualized.