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Correction: until 5 or 6 years ago the minimum age of consent in Spain was 13. It was raised to 16 by the conservative party despite the opposition of the progressives (who wanted 15) and communists (14).Well before the EU. Spain had laws establishing consentual sex at 14 and incest was not forbidden.
Funnily enough, today those progressives are in power and are delighted to see 20 year-olds being sent to over 30 years in prison for having sex with a 15 year-old girl. They even have the nerve to accuse the conservatives of doubting women's honesty and defending rapists for opposing such brutal judgments when they (the progressives) were the ones who cried blue murder 5 years ago claiming that 16 years was too old in a society where teens have sex much earlier.
Ironically, it was legal to get married at the age of 14 with the authorisation of your parents and a judge. Now it's 16 too.
As for incest, it has never been legally persecuted but close relatives are forbidden from marrying.
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