Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. The age of consent is the minimum age at which a person is legally permitted to accept and engage in sexual acts. Most jurisdictions set the age of consent in the range of 14 to 18 years old, although ages of consent as low as 12 and as high as 21 exist. Age of consent vary by the type of sexual act and by gender in some jurisdictions. In some countries the law also allow minors to engage in sexual acts with each other, rather than imposing a single age...