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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
I was going to ask this in the Amazon is Evil thread, but it would probably get lost with all the god and nazi stuff. What age do people in fiction need to be before they can either talk about or engage in sexual acts?
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Depends on the country. And "talk about" is probably unlimited.
Australia: Explicit depictions of minors (under 18) are illegal. Pretty much entirely, except for educational purposes. What counts as "explicit" probably depends on the judge.
US: No age limit for fictional characters depicted as having sex. Age limits for *real* people, which can include underage actors depending on what they're doing, but "people" who were never born and can't die, have no legal rights to protect and don't fall under "child pornography" laws. They might fall under "obscenity" laws, but that's measured against the artistic/literary value of the work.
Many publishers won't publish books where minors have sex, or won't publish explicit scenes with minors, or won't publish scenes where minors have sex with adults, whether consenting or not.
Legal age to *have* sex in a given region has no direct connection to legal age of *depictions* of sex, whether in pictures or in text. The fact that many US states allow sex at 16 doesn't make it legal to have or distribute videos of 16-year-olds having sex.