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Originally Posted by MoonlitSunshine
You sure about that?
"Increasingly the age of consent laws of a state are applied not only to acts committed on its own territory, but also acts committed by its nationals or inhabitants on foreign territory.[1] Such provisions have been frequently adopted to help reduce the incidence of child sex tourism."
-that's what wikipedia has to say about it, but under UK law, if they have the same laws, a UK citizen would not be breaking any laws in having sex with a US 16yo, but the US 16yo would be.
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I can't seem to find it right now but I remember reading it in a wiki article that it falls back to the resident of the state's law not where the act is committed.
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Each US state has its own age of consent. Currently state laws set the age of consent at 16, 17 or 18. The most common age is 16.[41]
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There is another part somewhere else that is more specific but I can't find it
