Age of Consent in Fiction

[gehayi]

erastes is blogging today over about age of consent in fiction. I wanted to reply, but I couldn't; Blogspot limits comments to 4096 characters. (Cripes, even LJ does better than that.) So I thought I'd post here and leave a link there.

Sometimes I wonder how George R. R. Martin got away with it in his A Song of Ice and Fire series. For those who haven't

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[scrollgirl]

DISNEY'S POCAHONTAS

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Canada (which has a federal law banning unmarried people under eighteen from consenting to anal intercourse; again, apparently any other kind of gay sex is fine in Canada)

Of course, if the parents give consent to underage marriage, then two 17-year-old boys *could* have legal anal intercourse! Heh.

[gehayi]

Oh, don't get me started about Pocahontas

[minkhollow]

It would not entirely surprise me if John Smith was a model for Captain Hammer. We read bits of his travel-journal thing in high school; man thought he was The Shiznit.

[lee_rowan]

Yes-from all accounts Smith was a jackass, and it's a shame Powhatan didn't clobber him. Then too, it's a pity the original residents of New England didn't have stronger immigration laws and better weapons...

[gehayi]

You might like this, incidentally:

The Nostalgia Chick Reviews Pocahontas. (And by "reviews," I mean "rips to shreds." It is a thing of beauty and a joy forever.)