Violence against women: an EU-wide survey

Betty La Fea wrote:

DuringTheWar wrote:One thing I did find frightening in the report though was the amount of women who say they were sexually assaulted before the age of 15, there is no way it's always been that bad.
Really shocked tbh. Maybe those old social conservative prudes like Judith Reisman are right about pornography after all huh

Isn't the age of consent below(or at) 15 for  like 20+ European countries. That probably explains a lot of them experiencing sexual violence before that age.

I don't know tbh, but pushing the age limit as low as that is just destigmatising pedophillia. I mean it might not be technically peadophilia but a 14 year old is a child. No matter what way it is spun, whether it's legalised or not, a 14 yo is a child according to any meaningful definition of the word child.

It's over 15 in the UK and the UK was one of the worst. 18% in the UK, nearly 1 in 5. It's difficult to believe the problem is as widespread as that.
If it is then something is going terribly wrong in people's attitude to children.

Freeza wrote:Give me one example of a tiny slap being punished. I can understand the riots in the street then. If a tiny slap to someone who slaps you gets you locked up, but shooting a black male gets you a promotion

Land of the free

I'm just telling you what would happen man if a cop was there They don't play with that, at least down here.

DuringTheWar wrote:

Betty La Fea wrote:

DuringTheWar wrote:One thing I did find frightening in the report though was the amount of women who say they were sexually assaulted before the age of 15, there is no way it's always been that bad.
Really shocked tbh. Maybe those old social conservative prudes like Judith Reisman are right about pornography after all huh

Isn't the age of consent below(or at) 15 for  like 20+ European countries. That probably explains a lot of them experiencing sexual violence before that age.

I don't know tbh, but pushing the age limit as low as that is just destigmatising pedophillia. I mean it might not be technically peadophilia but a 14 year old is a child. No matter what way it is spun, whether it's legalised or not, a 14 yo is a child according to any meaningful definition of the word child.

It's over 15 in the UK and the UK was one of the worst. 18% in the UK, nearly 1 in 5. It's difficult to believe the problem is as widespread as that.
If it is then something is going terribly wrong in people's attitude to children.

Very interesting. This was the list I was referring to.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Europe#Consent_by_age

Seems 16 is the most common age in Europe, although there are quite a few 15 and 14 year old ones.