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Age of Consent: Al Zimmerman
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To say The Age of Consent is a great album of danceoriented synthpop music is to sell it extremely short; this is simply a great album, period. Jimmy Somerville's soaring tenor may take some getting used to, but the songs, many of them dealing with homophobia and alienation (none more eloquently than "Smalltown Boy"), are compelling vignettes about the vagaries of life as a gay man. Cynics predisposed to dismissing entire genres of music based on trendiness or a limited appeal ("dance music is for dancing, not listening") miss the point in lumping this in with more mindless forays into techno or neodisco. As the Pet Shop Boys (the world's greatest disco band) proved a few years later, you can have substantive content and wrap it up in a compelling, visceral, danceoriented package. Few bands understood this better, or earlier, than Bronski Beat. [The Rhino edition features enhanced album art and four bonus tracks.]
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Already, 20 European countries have ages of consent lower than l6. The minimum age is effectively l2 in the Netherlands, Spain, Portugal and Malta. It's 14 in Slovenia, Iceland, Montenegro, Serbia, Italy, San Marino, Albania and, in certain circumstances, Germany. All these laws apply equally to hetero and homo sex.
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The age of consent in Delaware is 16, although it is illegal for a person under the age of 18 to have intercourse with another who is at or above the age of 30. However, there exists in the legislation a close in age exception.
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The first rule is just the general age of consent that is commonly quoted. There is a law currently being processed that would raise this age to 16 while adding another close-in-age exemption that would allow 14 and 15 y/o to have sex with others up to 5 years their senior.
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In many parts of the world, those of the same sex are required to be of an older age than their opposite-sex counterparts. In some parts of the world, same sex intimacy is forbidden altogether.
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In 1998 Ann Keene MP moved an amendment to equalise the age of consent. It passed in the Commons but was defeated in the Lords by an alliance of hereditary peers led by Lady Young.
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