>>15864548Each state has a different age of consent. It's not unusual for local governments to have different standards than the federal on this. Everyone likes to meme about the age of consent in, say, Mexico or Japan, but it's almost always higher in any given region within the country.
It should be noted that the US is pretty much on-par or higher than most countries though. You typically only see an age of consent at 17 or 18 in heavily religious countries, if not outright theocracies.
