[---] This article provides an account of recent parliamentary and public debates about the age of consent, Section 28 and sex education. It examines some implications of these debates for broader interpretations of contemporary British politics, including the significance of interest group activity, the identities and policy agendas of political parties, and the relationship between lesbian, gay and bisexual politics and processes of constitutional reform. The drawing of new boundaries of citizenship is occurring in the contemporary politics of sexuality, youth and childhood, and this is the territory upon which future political struggles will occur.