age of consent

Editorial: Law and Sexuality
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In our mid-month issue, Stuti Tripathi considers whether raising the minimum age of marriage for women from 18 to 21years is indeed a one-stop solution to check early marriages. She brings to our attention the many factors, such as family pressure, inaccessible educational and financial resources, traditionally defined roles of women, and gender-based marginalisation that together lead to early marriages and argues that young people need rights not protection.

By TARSHI
September 15, 2020
Editorial: Law and Sexuality
Age of Marriage: Rights not Protection
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It is necessary to recognize and address the key role that sexuality plays when it comes to our efforts against EFM. What we need to remember is that EFM “doesn’t just lead to a set of restricted choices; it reflects and reinforces a set of restricted choices that already exist.”

By Stuti Tripathi
September 15, 2020
Age of Marriage: Rights not Protection
Is POCSO Failing Adolescent Sexuality?

Age of consent deems sexual activity with persons below the set age as statutory rape, which POCSO has set at 18 years. However, the law in practice faces some unintended consequences, in relation to who it prosecutes and their ages.

By Mrinalini and Udita
September 1, 2020
Is POCSO Failing Adolescent Sexuality?
The Mask of Age
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As advocates of safe, inclusive and sexuality-affirming spaces, we can explore different ways to ensure that the people we are interacting with on dating platforms are legal adults and are not merely wearing a mask of adulthood.

By Andy Stephen Silveira
August 3, 2020
The Mask of Age