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Originally Posted by Rachel
I'm guessing lowering the age you can appear in it would also mean lowering the age you can buy it...which is another question that baffles me - you can legally have sex, but you can't buy a video showing it. Makes no sense to me. 
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They're governed by two different types of laws. Possessing pornographic material is contract binding and hence belongs to the age of majority - not the age of consent. Lowering the age of appearing in pornographic material to under the age of majority for a contractual bond that involves two parties means that one party would be a minor. Thus, the one who needs to give their consent in that case would be the person's next of kin, and this can be seen as a form of prostitution.
But if you're talking about Britain, I believe the age of consent was only recently changed from 18 to 16 years, so there's a gap of 2 years. British pornographers are currently pursuing this case with the European court, in hopes that they can lower the age of possessing pornographic material to equate it with the age of consent.