"Do you have sixteen?"

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In early March, the journalist Nastya Krasilnikova published the new season of the podkasta “The Daughter of the Robber”, which states that the popular rapper Oximiron (Miron Fedorov) corrupted minors. In at least two of the three inanimously confirmed cases, Fedorov bowed teenagers to have sex, when they were already sixteen: despite the fact that in one case we are talking about grooming from the age of thirteen, and in the other - about the molestation of a girl who was in the care of the musician.

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Although many user: the nits of social networks supported the girls and condemned the rapper, some public speaker: Ki came into support.

For example, the popularizer of science Asya Kazantseva said that she did not consider rapper a rapist. “Oximiron, of course, behaved in those years as a complete moron, completely devoid of emotional intelligence, but he is not a rapist or pedophile, because all words have its own meanings,” Kazantseva wrote. She later added that she was “surprised by mass indignation” and does not consider the conversations of an adult man with a teenage girl about sex “such a gigantic atrocity”, “especially if it was fifteen years ago”.

Director Vasily Sigarev spoke against the victims of the violence by Oximiron. “I won’t be surprised if [the nickname from the correspondence]“ Papa Oxy ”she came up with him, and then rubbed everything in order to play. By the way, there is about 200 thousand that he paid her, ” wrote Sigarev. Journalist Evgeny Albats expressed her perplexity: she talked about sex in cemeteries and window sills in the Soviet entrances between 14-year-old girls and adult men “by mutual desire and impatient”, also hinting at their similar experience with an unnamed writer.

As the heroine of the podcast “The Daughter of the Robber” said, Oximiron specially had sex with only those girls who turned 16 years old - to avoid potential criminal liability. Victoria Kuchak, who suffered from the actions of Fedorova, emphasized that in the patriarchal society, hundreds of thousands of women share her experience, citing a popular trend on Twitter. During his studies in Oxford, Vera Markovich recalls the ward that the rapper persistently asked if she was sixteen, although she did not give active consent for sexual contact, and the guardian sex of the tribberries: oh British legislation, from only 18 years old.

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  Semen Vladimirov

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  March 18, 2025

What is the age of consent, what is it in Russia and other countries?

The age of consent is an age at which a person can give informed consent to sex. Sex with a person is younger than this feature to punish and is considered rape.

Historically, the age of consent arose as a legal measure to protect children and adolescents from sexual exploitation. For the first time, it was officially recorded in the legislation of England in the 13th century - then this bar was established for 12 years. It is also associated with a period of puberty. In the 16th century, a similar norm appeared in Muscovy. Subsequently, many countries revised this age depending on the notions of childhood, puberty and public morality. For example, in the 19th century, the age of consent in France and Great Britain was increased to 13-16 years after campaigns against the sexual exploitation of minors.

Now in Russia the age of consent is 16 years. For sex of an adult man with those who have not reached 16 years, there is a punishment up to the four years of the colony. Homosexual sexual intercourse with a minor is punishable by a period of up to six years in prison. Responsibility for sex with a person under 16 years of age is provided only for adults. If the DV: The partner who has not reached the age of 18: KIs are sexual intercourse without violence, legal consequences for this are not provided.

In other countries, the age of consent varies from 12 to 18 years. For example, in Cuba, such a norm is 12 years as in some states of Mexico. In Argentina, Niger - 13 years old, in Germany, Italy, Austria - 14 (for sexual relations between adolescents). In some countries, the bar reaches the age of 18, as in India, Turkey and some US states.

Raise or lower?

In recent years, in the matter of the age of consent, they have increasingly paying attention to the need to psychologically protect the child. For example, in 2021, French activist: Ki achieved an increase in the age of consent to 15 years. Earlier in France, sex with minors was considered illegal only if the court managed to prove coercion.

Recently, states have been increasing the permissible age for sexual relations. For example, in 2023, Japan changed the age of consent from 13 to 16 years, and the Philippines -from 12 to 16 in 2022. In the Philippines, such a decision was justified by the protection of minors from sexual exploitation and ensuring a safe environment for children.

But it cannot be said that the age of consent is always changing in favor of an increase. For example, in Britain in the early 2010s they offered to lower it. One of the arguments was the desire to decriminalize sexual relations between adolescents. As a result, the initiative was left without support.

Discussion is that for homosexual relations, the age of consent in some countries is still higher. For example, in Singapore, the age of consent for heterosexual relations is 16 years, and for homosexual (male) - 18 years. Although the criminal article for “Sodigy” was canceled in 2022, the age difference remained.

Similar norms act in Chile, Suriname and Papua-New Guinea. In Austria, until 2003, the age of consent for male homosexual relations was 18 years. In the same year, the European Court of Human Rights recognized this provision with discriminatory. The same norm is in Russian legislation, but due to the fact that since 2022 the jurisdiction of the ECHR does not apply to the Russian Federation, it is not worth expecting any reforms in this direction.

In some countries, the age of consent is absent in principle: in Iran, Libya, Yemen Afghanistan, Kuwait and Pakistan, sex out of marriage is criminalized . In these countries, early marriages are practiced, which often leads to the molestation of girls for 10 or even less years (although legal marriage does not always mean legalization of sex with minors). In January 2025, amendments were accepted in Iraq that allowing marriages with nine-year-old girls-due to the features of the interpretation of Sharia law with some shiism. The age of marriage was reduced for boys: from 18 to 15 years.

Another important problem is extraterritorial jurisdiction. Due to the differences in the age of consent, men can come to countries with a lower bar of consent for sex. Many countries have adopted special laws that prohibit their citizens: Kama sex with minors in other states.

Such differences in the laws lead to children's sex tourism. Men from Western countries often go to developing to use children from poor families.

Who is beneficial for the age of consent?

The age of consent is needed primarily in order to protect the psyche of the teenager and provide him with a safe environment. But there is also the reverse side of the question. The Vika Kuchak, who suffered from the actions of Oximiron, indicated it in an interview with the rain. “[The age of consent] does not protect minors in any way, but rather works in favor of adult men who want to operate girls and boys. [They put pressure on teenagers, bowing them to sex in 16]. We are now not about the relationship between adolescents, but about the connection between adults and 16-year-olds. And in this case, the age of consent is clearly not in the interests of those whom he should protect. ”

In different countries, there is really discussions that the current age of consent is not sufficiently protected by adolescents. For example, 16-year-olds are less aware of STDs compared to more adults, which makes them more vulnerable to diseases. They are also more vulnerable to violence: due to ignorance, at what moment there is a violation of personal boundaries, a person at 16 can consent to sex unconsciously, and this can be abused. Expert interviewed by Forbes: Ki suggested that the answer could be the sexual education of adolescents, informing them about what active consent is and how to give it.