Matches in DBpedia 2014 for { ?s ?p Since the 1970s, a number of demonstrations have taken place in the UK in favour of lowering the age of consent, either on the grounds of claims for children’s rights, gay liberationism or, more recently, "as a means to avoid unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) and ‘bad sex’ via education and health promotion".Sociologist Matthew Waites, author of The age of Consent – Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship, observed that:"By the mid-1970s the case for a lower minimum age for all was finding wider support, with questions being posed concerning the merits of lowering the legal age for male/female sexual behaviour – not only within grassroots sexual movements, but also within religious organisations and liberal intellectual circles."(…)[Contemporarily,] "significant sections of liberal opinion in the political mainstream, including prominent campaigners for children’s interests and sexual health, support at least some selective decriminalisation of sexual activity between young people under 18".(…) More generally in academic work, particularly in Sociology, writing on sexuality from various perspectives has questioned the extent of prohibitions on sexual activity involving children.On 17 October 2010 on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live program, the viewing public was asked for their text poll, the question "Should the age of consent be lowed to 13?" from 18. At the end of the program it was announced that 16% voted yes and 84% voted no.. }
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- Age_of_consent_manifestations_(UK) abstract "Since the 1970s, a number of demonstrations have taken place in the UK in favour of lowering the age of consent, either on the grounds of claims for children’s rights, gay liberationism or, more recently, "as a means to avoid unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections (STI’s) and ‘bad sex’ via education and health promotion".Sociologist Matthew Waites, author of The age of Consent – Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship, observed that:"By the mid-1970s the case for a lower minimum age for all was finding wider support, with questions being posed concerning the merits of lowering the legal age for male/female sexual behaviour – not only within grassroots sexual movements, but also within religious organisations and liberal intellectual circles."(…)[Contemporarily,] "significant sections of liberal opinion in the political mainstream, including prominent campaigners for children’s interests and sexual health, support at least some selective decriminalisation of sexual activity between young people under 18".(…) More generally in academic work, particularly in Sociology, writing on sexuality from various perspectives has questioned the extent of prohibitions on sexual activity involving children.On 17 October 2010 on the BBC’s Sunday Morning Live program, the viewing public was asked for their text poll, the question "Should the age of consent be lowed to 13?" from 18. At the end of the program it was announced that 16% voted yes and 84% voted no.".