What is the ideal age of consent?

Reacting to Sectionalism Archive

I was asked to respond to Sectionalism Archive’s (SA) recent post Going to Bat for the Age of Consent. He mentions my juvenalia pen name, and includes two charts I made in the article. SA writes intelligently and calmly in favor of the age of consent status quo of his country, the United States. Nonetheless, I have a few factual and philosophical disagr…