Concept
Age of consent
Overview
minimum age for sexual activities without legal repercussions
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To this must be added another factor derived from the astonishing course of development which is pursued by the erotic life of man. In his first phase, which has usually come to an end by the time he is five years old, a child has found the first object for his love in one or other of his parents, and all of his sexual instincts with their demand for satisfaction have been united upon this object. The repression…
Sigmund Freud, Group Psychology and The Analysis of The Ego
Close in meaning to Age of consent; the term itself is not named.
But it is above all in the realm of sex that early moral teaching does harm. If a child has been conventionally educated by somewhat stern parents or nurses, the association between sin and the sex organs is so firmly established by the time he is six years old that it is unlikely ever to be completely undone throughout the rest of his life. This feeling is, of course, reinforced by the Œdipus complex, since the…
Bertrand Russell, The conquest of happiness
States what Age of consent is.
The essential point in the first doubts is settled by the observation that it really is not the experiences themselves that act traumatically, but their revival as reminiscences after the individual has entered into sexual maturity.
Sigmund Freud, Selected papers on hysteria and other psychoneuroses
Close in meaning to Age of consent; the term itself is not named.
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Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of sex.