A bill being prepared by the French government could set a minimum legal age for sexual consent for the first time, and the country's justice minister said that she thinks 13 years old could be a reasonable age. Justice Minister Nicole Belloubet told France's RTL radio network that age 13 was a "limit that is worth considering" for the upcoming legislation, but noted that judges should also have the ability to assess whether someone was old enough to give consent in individual situations.

"The question of the age below which the minor's consent is presumed not to exist is crucial because there are obviously extremely shocking and unacceptable situations," Belloubet said. One of her colleagues in the French government has said that a minimum age for sexual consent has not been set for the bill. Marlene Schiappa, a junior minister for gender equality, said Sunday that the cutoff could be between the ages of 13 and 15.

A minimum age of sexual consent does not currently exist in French law. The law only says that an adult who performs a sexual act with a person under the age of 15 "without violence, coercion, threat or surprise" can be prosecuted for "sexual abuse," not rape.

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I call that a wise decision, lot of shits are done in that place anyways and when a sin or crime's legalised, there no longer exist the excitement to engage in it