Basic requirements to enter into a contract.

Time for a pragmatic approach me thinks.

The city of Indio, California made it a crime for homeowners to not repair their homes. The city council thought that would maintain home values. It had just the opposite effect. Why?

Not for the fainted hearted. If you are interested in legal/gender issues you may find this discussion about (amongst other things) the value of consent in both rape and forced feeding of hunger strikers. This is written as an academic paper with footnotes and a bibliography. A serious discussion – nothing fictional about it. Next I need to write something lighter!

With teenage pregnancies in Britain still rising, and the age of the average virgin continuing to lower, is it time to clamp down on underage sex and raise the age of consent, or should we consider scrapping it all together?