Sex Rights In Canada

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Issues regarding sex, and other sexual activities, are issues across the globe, from what the legal age of consent should be, to birth control, LGBT issues, and pornography. Across the globe, laws, regulations, and social norms regarding this topics are approached in vastly different ways. With Canada, the US, and Mexico being the primary countries in North America, and being so close in proximity, you’d think that their attitudes, customs, and laws regarding sex would be much more similar than they are. Despite sharing some similarities regarding sex, and other sexually related topics, there are still many differences. The legal age of consent in the US and Canada is the same age of 16, while in Mexico the legal age of consent is 12 for …show more content…

Canada has also been known to be rather progressive when it comes to concerns of the LGBTQ community, as you can even see Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, along side his family, in LGBTQ community walks in support. “The Canadian Human Rights Act forbids discrimination based on sexual orientation...Canada lifted their ban on gays in the military in October of 1992...in 2003 the provinces of Ontario and British Columbia granted full equal marriage rights to same-sex couples...and in 2013, a bill was introduced to include transgendered and gender variant Canadians in the Canadian Human Rights Act, (Cason).” In comparison to Canada the US was not quite as progressive as early as Canada, with Massachusetts being the only state in the US to grant legalization of same-sex marriage to couples in 2003. Since 2003, same-sex marriage has been legalized nationwide, which took place in June of 2015. (Caron) In the US, “the birth of the gay rights movement began in 1969...the Defense of Marriage Act, enacted in 1996 has since been ruled unconstitutional as of 2013...and since 2011, gay and lesbian individuals have been allowed to serve openly in the military, (Caron).” As far as Mexico is concerned, regarding LGBTQ issues, discrimination against individuals based on sexual orientation has been illegal since October of 1999 and the legalization of same-sex marriages in Mexico only took place in 2010 and is restricted to the residents of Mexico’s

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