Huge numbers of sex offenders in (USA) jails certainly seem to indicate it is.
yes... well... was refering to the other thing...
the premise of informed consent, as a process of marriage licensing, that then in turn or by its very normalisation, drives culture and in turn drives laws, or in reverse.
we could probably talk in circles for ever about concepts of sexual proclivaties of the ID.
i prefer to remain in the realm of adults making informed consent for the concept of social normative function, otherwise we are in fact talking about slavery.
which was and still is normalised by some cultures in some places in the world.
subjective ground zero of morality...etc...
rendering from the ground up to attempt to balance the informed adult personal relationship inside a frame work of pre-defined rules is in its self a process of pre-ordanned moral structure.
i understand the sudden jump by many to think of sexual slavery, however... that is not my topic.
though you do raise a valid point about the age of informed consent and marriage licensing ages.
in my opinion they should be the same,
voting, alcahol(recreational drugs [exceptions are prescriptions by doctors]), marriage, surrogacy, organ/blood/bone marrow donation, adopting, parenting(being allowed to keep a child and raise it yourself etc...), signing contracts that are legally binding,
my exceptions are
driving a private motor vehicle for private purposes or for transport to & from work.
operating machinery & power tools(firearms for work purposes i.e farmwork)
nothing involving passenger transport
allowing children to adopt children and be surrogate parents and then equating that to the morality of adults having casual consenting sex with other adults when married is quite a jump in a concept of moral equity from what i can tell...(not what i was talking about as you should hopefully now realise)