{"id":19798,"date":"2013-01-11T01:11:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-11T00:11:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/uk.news.yahoo.com\/age-consent-reduction-ruled-001151445.html"},"modified":"2013-01-11T01:11:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-11T00:11:51","slug":"age-of-consent-reduction-ruled-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/age-of-consent-reduction-ruled-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of consent reduction ruled out"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"first\">David Cameron has rejected an &#8220;offensive&#8221; suggestion by officials that the age of sexual consent might be reduced to 14.<\/p>\n<p>The change was among ideas floated by the Number 10 policy unit after being asked to come up with new ways to extend personal freedoms, the Daily Mail reported.<\/p>\n<p>Among other recommendations was a relaxation of laws against nudity but a Downing Street spokesman denied claims that was being considered.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Prime Minister considers the idea of lowering the age of consent to be offensive,&#8221; he said &#8211; insisting there were no plans to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Asked about reforms to nudity laws, he added: &#8220;It&#8217;s not something that the Prime Minister is considering.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s mid-term review of the Tory\/Lib Dem coalition said the Government would take further steps to &#8220;limit the scope&#8221; of the state &#8220;and extend our freedoms&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The age of consent has been 16 since 1875 but there have been calls for it to be lowered because so many teenagers are sexually active at a younger age.<\/p>\n<p>Criminalising young people makes it harder to advise them on issues such as birth control and pregnancy and safeguards could be included to ensure it only applied to youngsters of a similar age, campaigners suggest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.quantserve.com\/pixel\/p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Cameron has rejected an &#8220;offensive&#8221; suggestion by officials that the age of sexual consent might be reduced to 14.<br \/>\nThe change was among ideas floated by the Number 10 policy unit after being asked to come up with new ways to extend personal free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[487],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-breaking-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}