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Monday, August 28, 2006

About Age...

When I was reading the papers this morning, I came across this article about a JC girl contracting HIV from her boyfriend despite the fact that she's not a promiscuous girl at all. This pushed my brain into a vortex of thoughts regarding the different age limits the government imposes on different things.

You see, as a JC girl, that lady must be about 17-19? There's nothing wrong with her having sex with her boyfriend as the legal age to do so is 16 in Singapore, so you can only blame her values as she didn't break no laws.

However, putting the lady's case aside, the strange thing is, the legal age to consume alcohol is 18. Conventionally, alcohol is the thing that impairs judgement or awakens the sexual inhibitions of people, leading to sex, yet people are allowed to have sex and not allowed to drink. Furthermore, sex is a greater responsibility than drinking alcohol, so why is the age limit set like this?

Also, the legal age to watch movies which depict sex explicitly is 21, but, like mentioned above, the minimum age to have sex is 16. Yes, the sexual themes in those movies may be too much to handle for a 16, if the sex depicted itself is not. Then maybe the age limits should be adjusted?

The US has the minimum age for sex at 18 (if I'm not mistaken). They are the people we turn to when the word 'liberal' is mentioned and yet their limits are more strict than ours.

It is true that the limits are not followed closely by the people as I know of many people who had sex way before 16, I myself started drinking in secondary school and I have been watching movies more 'interesting' than those shown in theatres when I was still in primary school. But the rules, if anyone sincerely hope to set anything right, should be revised or the whole age limit system will seem retarded and will be taken as a joke.

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Hanged @ 8:47 PM