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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) by insertnickname on Thursday March 21, 2019 @08:31AM (#19451527)
Why not make it a hundred years?
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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) by devoply on Thursday March 21, 2019 @09:10AM (#19451851)
Why prevent sexually mature humans from engaging in sex?
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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) by tropo on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:11PM (#19456738)
This is Japan.

Nobody is likely to have sex at all, or to do anything that is banned. If "allure of forbidden fruit" would actually work though, setting the age of consent to 120 might just be what Japan needs.

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Re:Japan plans to lower age of adulthood to 18 (2018) by krapp on Thursday March 21, 2019 @04:25PM (#19456902)
>This is Japan. >Nobody is likely to have sex at all, or to do anything that is banned.

You know you're talking about the country with the love hotels and the yakuza, right?

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