Children Quote by Janet Bode

Youth Liberation has argued for some time that young people should have the right to have sex as well as not to have it,…

— Gayle Rubin

Maybe this is my morality coming in again but it was important to me that the actor [ in Notes On A Scandal] was…

— Cate Blanchett

Sex is no longer a serious taboo. Teenagers sometimes know more about it than adults.

— Alan Watts

I can't remember ever having a conversation about the definition of consent when I was a kid. I knew that no meant no, but…

— Nate Parker

The positive nature of some child-adult sexual relationships is not confined to non-Western cultures. Several of my friends - gay and straight, male and…

— Peter Tatchell

We've fallen down on our responsibility to our children by somehow creating this world where they're surrounded by images of sexuality; and yet, we…

— Laurie Halse Anderson

When you're 16 and when you're 17, you're kind of walking that fine line of being an adult and legally being able to look…

— Katherine Langford

“Regardless of your sexual state, you are a human being, you are a created person of God, and you are whole. Instead of talking…

— Dianna Anderson

Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.'

— Rachel Vail

The upshot of pervasive public belief in the uncontrollable sexuality of teenagers, and even of pre-teenagers, is that parents arehalf-hearted in their efforts to…

— Marie Winn

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

— Steve Carell

At the end of the day, though, the entire basis for consent laws doesn't make sense. We're not old enough to decide if we…

— Jessica Valenti