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The law you are asking about is called the age of consent. They are important laws regarding sex and young people, because they decide when a young person can legally agree to having a sexual relationship.

Sometimes the law is slightly different when the partners are of a similar age, but there is usually still a minimum age below which sex is always illegal. Until you reach this age it is illegal for somebody to have sex with you, however old they may be.

The age of consent is not devised just to prevent you from having sex, it is designed to keep an adult from taking advantage of a young person who doesn't feel comfortable enough to say 'no'. Age of consent laws are there to protect young people from being sexually exploited by adults.

Statutory rape is the crime that someone can be charged with if they have sex with a person who has not reached the age of consent, that is for anyone who says "yes" but is not legally old enough to make the decision. Some states call it 'unlawful sexual penetration' or just 'rape'.

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