I really don’t care if some people won’t find that obvious, they should do some research and learn a thing or two. That’s how a large majority of laws all around the world work.
Progress isn’t made by appealing to the ruling class.
I was also thinking of the “great unwashed masses” that will almost certainly think we mean any person of any age with any person of any age. It is better to keep the message clear and unambiguous.
Plus, consenting adults can engage in activities that minors ought not to. Nude photos, pornography, in a few locations, prostitution, BDSM and other fetishes.
It would be, but ‘‘Consenting adults’’ is an unrealistically exclusionary term.
It doesn’t really matter if the sexual abilities of minors are limited, what matters here is that minors can consent to sex with other minors and there really isn’t any way to stop that, at least not a humane way. Ignoring the fact that minors have sex isn’t and never has been helpful either.
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I think the idea of calling consent persons makes a lot of sense. I’m all in for that.
Now, just to go a little further in the subject, I have to say that I don’t think children and teenagers are the same things. That’s also why I liked your idea.
And, being more direct to the point here, I also have to say that. For starters, I think the very idea of “stop teenagers from having sex” is a radical idea, not to say impossible. Like, be honest, do you think you can prevent all teenagers, with, let’s say 15-17 to have sex? Well, That seems like an impossible task for me. And… my idea of “solution” for that? Not sure if I can call it “solution” but well, anyway, unfortunately, my idea about that I simply can’t comment here. It seems like is forbidden by the forum rules.
But changing subjects, do you know the age of consent here in Brazil is 14 yo. Is an interesting fact isn’t it? :3
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There is actually a way to permanently end underaged sex, although it is theoretical. Psychiatric experiments conducted in recent years have found that emotions can be artificially controlled through manipulation of synaptic impulses, ( a chip that manipulates the flow of electrical signals throughout your brain). Currently, this technology only covers electrical signals but scientists are close to being able to control chemical signals as well. If this happens and enough development is achieved in this realm of science. You could theoretically stop underaged sex entirely by putting chips in people at birth that regulate their hormonal levels, effectively making them asexual until reaching a certain age.
This technology would be heavily beneficial, unfortunately, the risk of abuse is astronomically high.
Artificially changing the desire for sex in teenagers? 
That sounds like science fiction to me. But, OK, maybe in 50 years from now? Also, the day people could actually do that, I believe preventing teenagers from wanting sex will be like… the least relevant/important use of this technology.
It does sound like science fiction, but hey, China built a mass public-surviellance network and unironically called it ‘‘Skynet’’ so who knows.
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This is a sort of science fiction trope where we suppose some incredible, practically inconceivable technology exists, and then use it do to the most mundane thing possible.
If science advanced to the point where we could selectively manipulate the electrical potential of neurons in order to deaden emotions. Then the phenomenology of the brain and the mind will have been all but understood. Who’s to say that we wouldn’t have bypassed the process of human psychological development altogether? If we have a model of electricity and the mechanism by which it produces the individual qualia, then who’s to say human would exist as biological creatures at all? Neurons aren’t the only thing the can carry electricity.
I think we have dramatically different definitions of “beneficial”
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@anon49547193 is right to the extent that mental health disorders and such could be treated with a technology like this. Think of curing PTSD, OCD, debilitating phobias and fears, maybe even creating a conscience for sociopaths.
But, the incredible possibilities of abuse simply stagger the imagination. This would be the most dangerous technology since the atom bomb. However, if it can be done, it will be done and considering how to control this would be vital.
Getting back to the original topic of this thread, adults versus persons, I still feel persons or people give to much inclusion to minors. Not that teens shouldn’t have some adult privileges and responsibilities to get them ready for adulthood, people is not limited to teens. No one here thinks children should be included in these issues, yet people or persons includes them.
Also it is too politically correct. I have had my fill of birthing persons instead of mothers, human kind instead of mankind, etc. Enough is enough.