Petitions tagged with "Age of Consent"

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Tags are generated automatically from the petition contents, so sometimes they do end up being a bit imprecise. But manually tagging over a 100,000 petitions would be a bit of a stretch, so we'll just have to put up with the occasional dodgy tag. Sorry about that.

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• Raise the age of consent to 18 with peer exception for 16-17 year olds
  Opened on
  9 signatures so far

• Increase the age of consent to 20 with exceptions for young people 16-19
  Opened on
  8 signatures so far

• Raise the age of consent in the UK to 18 years old.
  Open from Thursday 23rd July 2020 to Saturday 23rd January 2021
  174 signatures

• Extend sexual offences relating to under 13s to apply to all children under 16
  Open from Monday 17th August 2020 to Wednesday 17th February 2021
  827 signatures

• Make it illegal for people over 18 to have sexual relations with under 18s
  Open from Tuesday 19th October 2021 to Tuesday 19th April 2022
  56 signatures

• Change the legal age for smoking / use of e-cigarettes from 18 to 16
  Open from Friday 10th December 2021 to Friday 10th June 2022
  18 signatures

• Require age-verification for hook-up apps and websites
  Open from Friday 22nd April 2022 to Saturday 5th November 2022
  211 signatures

• Change the age of consent to 18
  Open from Wednesday 22nd June 2022 to Thursday 5th January 2023
  40 signatures

• Make it a specific offence to lie about your age to engage in sexual activities
  Open from Monday 17th October 2022 to Monday 17th April 2023
  52 signatures

• Raise the legal age of consent for sex to 18 if the other partner is an adult
  Open from Wednesday 7th December 2022 to Wednesday 7th June 2023
  209 signatures

• Make sexual communication with a child illegal for 16 and 17 year olds
  Open from Friday 13th January 2023 to Thursday 13th July 2023
  36 signatures

• Increase the age of consent for sexual activity from 16 to 18
  Open from Monday 16th January 2023 to Sunday 16th July 2023
  28 signatures

• Make it illegal for 18+ adults to have sex with under 18s
  Open from Thursday 14th August 2025 to Saturday 14th February 2026
  435 signatures

• Change the legal age of consent to intercourse to 18
  Opened on Friday 12th December 2025
  134 signatures so far

• Review and revise age of consent in light of advances in science
  Opened on Thursday 19th March 2026
  28 signatures so far

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