Altered Maps XVI: Gerardus Mercator Must Die
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Broken_Erika
Play with me.
Why is there a Spoon on my Sofa?
Lexicus
Deity
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I mean the age of consent doesnt work for people who are both below it, I presume it is more a failure to regulate for this case than a wilful decision.
Honestly, Italy is the best.
Honestly, Italy is the best.
JohannaK
Heroically Clueless
I must say, if they are two consenting adults, what's the problem?
Snerk
Smeghead
So blue is Targaryens and purple is Lannisters?
Ireland?
Germany
Yeah, Italy, WTH o_O?
For the minors, yes, I guess it's more that nobody wants to criminalize consensual sex for minors, so they are just exempt for it.
The same sex thing might or might not (I really have no idea) stem from ...uh... from times when there was some consideration regarding racial purity...if you know what I mean... incest not good for the resulting children, and such.
I don't see how those two things could be related? Incest is never good for the resulting children as far as I know.
If you have sex with your sibling of the other sex, you might produce children. Which will have not the very best genetic makeup, due to insufficient mixing, and so on. Therefore that part was forbidden (at least I think that's the reasoning; not sure if that was during Hitler's times or not, but I could imagine).
What you do with your same sex sibling does not have any consequences, therefore probably nobody thought about regulating it. And once upon a time maybe nobody thought this could be a thing, so never bothered to include it.
At least that's my idea, and as said, I might be totally wrong about it.
What you do with your same sex sibling does not have any consequences, therefore probably nobody thought about regulating it. And once upon a time maybe nobody thought this could be a thing, so never bothered to include it.
At least that's my idea, and as said, I might be totally wrong about it.
Ireland?
Germany
TBH, this is a map from the Sun news"paper", and obviously is all kinds of wrong. Eg in the case of Greece it probably is legal for adults, but obviously not minors.
Both Greece and Germany elect to shield minors from prosecution, because: Duh.
Ireland and Germany both apply the law primarily to vaginal intercourse. This is based on casework that cites the prevention of inbreeding as basis for the ban.
More curiously though Ireland would punish brother and sister by way of different subsections of the law using different language.
You know, because women are angelic creatures who never do but merely allow any bad deed in any context in general, ever; and men are just toxic, as we have been curteously informed.
Then again it is a 1908 law.
Then again it is extremely fitting that a 1908 Irish law is roughly as retrograde and sexist as contemporary Anglosphere "feminism".
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Traitorfish
The Tighnahulish Kid
It's probably just a quirk of how the laws were written. One law prohibits brother-sister shtupping specifically, another prohibits male-male and female-female shtupping generally, which therefore includes brother-brother and sister-sister shtupping specifically; when you repeal the latter without amending the former, brother-brother and sister-sister shtupping suddenly becomes legal.
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Hm, yes, but if this is just about both siblings being minors... doesn't it just fall under all such cases for minors regardless of those being siblings or not? Afaik there is no actual law (punitive anyway) against minor-minor sex relations. All laws are against legal adult (age according to each country) and minor.
Only law covering specific incest between minors (among various other cases) would be the general "against public indecency" etc. Ie something probably close (or the same) in spirit to the one in Italy (according to the image).
As I said above this isn't an Irish law, we didn't gain our independence for another fourteen years after it was passed. It is a law passed in Westminster that we inherited on independence and then never bothered to change.
Edit: it is probably nonsense but I read somewhere once that sex between men was banned in the Victorian era but that sex between women wasn't banned because Victoria didn't believe women would do such a thing.
Almost certainly nonsense, yes. I think it even got klaxoned once on QI.
Yes, i actually considered that before i hit send.
Two points:
1. The last four words of the quoted sentence.
2. Are you insinuating i (i, me, metatron, effin me) had some sort of pro-british bias?
Edit: Ok, i shall not engage in nitpicky making of fun.
I did. I edited it back out.
Yes it's a matter that is eccentric enough that one might just never bother to change it. Ok. Maybe.
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