(Via Ross Douthat) In the wake of the Girls Gone Wild bonanza (a party which looks to have recently come to an end) Garance Franke-Ruta thinks the age of porn-star consent should be raised to 21:

It is time to raise the age of consent from 18 to 21—”consent,” in this case, referring not to sexual relations but to providing erotic content on film.

This is silly. To borrow a mantra from the fight for the 26th Amendment: if you’re old enough to fight a war and die for your country, you’re certainly old enough to show that same country your beaver.

The real problem with the sweet sweet degeneracy that is Girls Gone Wild lies with the parents who somehow think it’s ok for their 17 year old daughters to go off to Panama City in March, unsupervised, with nine of their friends, an assortment of fake IDs, and incredibly low self-esteem.