The harms of religion

[Hovik]

You're misusing language to create a straw man. 16-year-olds are not children; they are adolescents. You keep throwing in that word to illicit a reactionary response, and that's intellectually indefensible.

With that in mind, yes, 16-year-old adolescents are perfectly capable of engaging in consensual protected sex.

Are any persons perfectly capable of engaging in consensual protected sex? As in the original proposition by brian37?

Er, yes? What does someone else's original proposition matter? Anybody at an age at which they are mentally competent enough to have sex should be able to do so, just so long as the sex is consensual and practiced safely.

[...] promiscuous sexual behavior [...]

Yet again, setting up a straw man.