16 is old. Not old enough according to our culture but there is no reason we should expect a fictional time-distant culture to have our particular moral or legal prescriptions. It wouldn’t be all that surprising if someone from an actual future time to, when reading the work, scoff at how prudish a culture would have to be to consider sexualised portrayals of women that age to be taboo!
Interestingly, if the book in question is the one I think it is, it takes place in Britain, where the age of consent is, in fact, sixteen.
Come to think of it, 16 is the age of consent here (Australia—most states) too. I should have used ‘your’ instead of ‘our’ in the paragraph you quote! It seems I was just running with the assumption.
Interestingly, if the book in question is the one I think it is, it takes place in Britain, where the age of consent is, in fact, sixteen.
Come to think of it, 16 is the age of consent here (Australia—most states) too. I should have used ‘your’ instead of ‘our’ in the paragraph you quote! It seems I was just running with the assumption.
Although “18 years old” does seem to be a hard-and-fast rule for when you can legally appear in porn everywhere, as far as I know...