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I guess it depends on where you live. Considering that some countries see no problem with forcing girls to get married at 8 years of age, giving the "husbands" all of their "marital rights", it seems to me that one could argue that in those countries the age of consent can't be higher than 6 years.
Isn't the issue less one of age of consent than the combination of age and graphic description? I mean how big a deal is it to say that "Amanda was married at 5 years of age although she will not be permitted to cohabit with her husband until she is 16"? Isn't the big deal when it is written "Amanda was married at age 5 and on her wedding night was forced to . . . <insert graphic description>"?
I find the issue interesting to the extent that people seem to be significantly more concerned about sexual acts among and with minors (however minor is defined) than about murder, rape, and all the other horrendous acts people perform on other people at/of all ages in books. Americans in particular see no problem with the possibility of copycat serial murders unlike with the possibility of sex between any two people.
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