Quote Originally Posted by UnreasonablyReasonable View Post
Why wouldn't a 10 year old be able to handle this? It isn't at all a complicated concept.
So what exactly are you saying that a 10-year-old (for instance) should be allowed to do, that they aren't currently allowed to do?

Quote Originally Posted by UnreasonablyReasonable
Also the question of how the system would work was a question that someone asked. The answer is to have porn depicting people who are underdeveloped be illegal, and that depicting those with adult bodies be legal. This is very straightforward and you can tell pretty easily just by looking.
So tell us exactly what criteria you would use to determine this. Give us an approximation of what the law might say; what might be the statuary standard by which the legality of a person's appearance in pornography would be judged? Don't just say "if they're developed, it's obvious when they are"; that's too vague and it's a cop-out. Tell us what specific indicators of development you think should be used.

Quote Originally Posted by UnreasonablyReasonable
This would also prevent those EXCEEDINGLY stupid charges against people who have sex with girls who are younger than 18 but look like they could easily be old enough, I mean seriously how is a guy supposed to know? Even if asking for ID a girl could just say she never got a driver's license or she may have a fake one. The law should definitely not be so hard to be able to follow. My way is simple and makes more sense.
No, your way is complicated and ambiguous, because it tries to take an arbitrary point in a complex biological process and say that people are "undeveloped" before that point but "developed" after it. It's incredible that you honestly believe that it would be simple to consider people adults once they're "developed". I really don't think you appreciate how much of a bitch that will be to handle. But before I go any further on that point, I'll wait to see your explanation of how exactly you'd judge "development".

I do agree that it's undesirable to charge people with rape for having consensual sex with a person that they reasonably believed to be an adult; however, the correct solution is to have legal provisions that ameliorate the offense in those cases, not to change the system as you've proposed.