What do you think is the best age of consent? It’s different in each state but on a national level there is a lot of pressure to make it 18 for all purposes. Is that too low, too high, or just right?

I have mixed feelings about it. I’ve known 40 year olds who didn’t have the maturity of some 16 year olds, so the age limit seems too arbitrary. I think it should be flexible and not a magic overnight change from she can’t do anything to she can do everything you can imagine in your sickest, wildest fantasies. That should be she or he but it’s usually the she who is wanted for adult films or for intimate relations with older men.
@Alexis: Your argument is good enough to make me retract my comments and 40 vs. 16. The maturity I’m thinking of is in the realms of intellect and visible behavior. But you’re right about teens, their brains have yet to fully develop in terms of social maturity and understanding long-term consequences.
@WRG: Good point about requiring tests… That would be the logical extension of what I said. Am glad to get these intelligent responses.