consenting adult

noun

1. a male person over the age of sixteen, who may legally engage in homosexual behaviour in private

Example Sentences

Like “Passages,” Ira Sachs’ recent, ratings-board-embattled erotic drama, Lanthimos’ movie offers bracing assurance that grown-up sexuality — though whether the wide-eyed woman-child Bella can be regarded as a consenting adult is one of the story’s thornier mysteries — has not yet been banished from the cinema screen.

From Los Angeles Times

Feldman explains the line between child and consenting adult might be clear in legal terms - but not always in practice: "If you learn throughout your whole lifetime that there are certain things you're allowed to say and think… you become cooperative."

From BBC

Dr Blyden is a supporter of the right of consenting adult women to practise FGM but is strongly against underage and forced FGM.

From BBC

Even though Singapore's 377A, under which offenders can be jailed for up to two years, has not been enforced on consenting adult males for decades, some religious groups wanted the statute to stay, fearing that its repeal may promote homosexuality and challenge traditional family structures.

From Reuters

In his concurring opinion on Dobbs, Thomas openly invites lawsuits to challenge "all of this Court's substantive due process precedents, including Griswold, Lawrence, and Obergefell," i.e. the decisions that secured the right to use birth control, the right to have sex with another consenting adult in the privacy of your home, and the right to marry someone of the same sex.

From Salon