Just very briefly, the Civil Liberties Association is in the process of studying the very different ages for consent in marriage, driving, enlisting, having sex, drinking, and that sort of thing, and voting, of course, quite critically. It does seem like a hodge-podge. There seems to be little attention paid to capacity. And it would seem as though on the face of it, many of these activities have overlapping levels of responsibility and appreciation of the emotional consequences, as well.
As with the study of this bill, it seems as though little attention has been paid to the psychological and sociological evidence pertaining directly to the issue of capacity. So my friend Mr. Quist will speculate that 15-year-olds are unable to deal with the emotional consequences of having sex, without tendering any evidence—rather, relying on opinion polls. To that extent, the approach to children's sexual autonomy or the sexual autonomy of minors is much more populist than principled, and that seems to be, in our view, a dangerous approach.