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Click here to see the edit of 8 November 2023 regarding the age of consent in the State of Washington (and said content is currently still present in the article).

The information is misleading as to the applicable age of consent in Washington, specifically when the person is not a teacher. And when I say misleading, I mean that relying on this information can land somebody in jail. Fabrickator (talk) 05:06, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry, I have provided the wrong "diff". Please check back later. Fabrickator (talk) 14:32, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I'm bringing this back from the 18 January 2023 entry, now in the talk page archive, that all claims based on ageofconsent.net should be removed:

It is not an academically valid source. It is a simple blog and many of its publications disagree with the penal codes.

They admit it themselves "AgeOfConsent.net is a free public resource site, and cannot offer legal advice. All information provided AS-IS with no warranty of accuracy".

All the information is in very simple tables, so there's no attempt to provide significant details, and there are no citations to sources. Fabrickator (talk) 20:39, 22 September 2024 (UTC)[reply]

The age of consent in Aruba and Curaçao is now 16, not 15. Article 2:200 for each penal code, text is in Dutch.

Aruba: https://cuatro.sim-cdn.nl/arubaoverheid2858bd/uploads/1601AB12.024.pdf?cb=arx59uf6

Curacao: https://natlex.ilo.org/dyn/natlex2/natlex2/files/download/110154/NLD110154.pdf Bluesparkler27 (talk) 00:32, 12 July 2025 (UTC)[reply]

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In Cuba, "estupro" only covers abuse of authority or deception; the article doesn't specify this and makes it seem as if mere physical contact were a "estupro".

I don't mean to imply bad faith, but given the extremely low age of consent in Cuba, this could lead one to believe that the text in this article "covers up the situation", as that for those between 12 and 16, "guards decide whether to proceed," when in reality, filing a complaint requires proving deception or abuse of authority. ~2026-10555-13 (talk) 03:59, 17 February 2026 (UTC)[reply]