Rejected petition Make it illegal for someone over 19 to have sex with someone under the age of 18

I wish for the Government to consider changing age of consent law so that someone over the age of nineteen cannot have sexual intercourse of perform any kind of sexual act with someone under the age of eighteen.

More details

Currently under UK age of consent law, a sixty-one year old can have sex with a sixteen year old and that is considered fine in the eyes of the law. I believe that this is disgusting, exploitative and disgraceful. I do not see how a 16 year old is simultaneously considered to be too young to participate in the democratic process but is considered to be old enough to be able to give consent to have sex with someone four times their age. I call on the Government to close this vile gap in the law.

This petition was rejected

Why was this petition rejected?

There’s already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.

You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.

You may wish to sign this petition which calls for a similar action: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/599262

We only reject petitions that don’t meet the petition standards.

Date submitted 29 March 2022
Get petition data (json format)

About petition data

The data shows the number of people who have signed the petition by country as well as in the constituency of each Member of Parliament. This data is available for all petitions on the site. It is not a list of people who have signed the petition. The only name that is shared on the site is that of the petition creator.