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Also since then the notion has developed that a person (especially a girl, sexism strikes again) under the AoC is not yet mentally competent enough to consent. Aside from the infantilization of adolescents this rests on, it also makes it hugely more difficult to actually fix the problem with the statutory rape law by way of legislation because now the courts see it as part of the same offense, regardless of statute, even if society sees it as a lesser offense.