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I think an important thing to note is that so much of the reasoning for it being that low is due to how casual it was for girls to be married off to older men in the united states. The united states has a bad problem with holding people who do sexually horrible things to underage people. The laws benefit the perpetrators of those actions, often leading to no punishment and if punishment is done it can lead to low, or no prison time at all. I think from a scientific stand point 16 is wrong. The brain is not developed enough to consent. So to me this is an instance where the law has it wrong. Especially when a lot of the states that have it that low still have problens with certain groups that take advantage of that law. The reasoning for raising it to 18 has always been because we know psychologically its important to protect underrage people since engage in that type of activity too young can have negative long term effects on someone