Dr. Matthew Waites is Senior Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Glasgow. He is author of The Age of Consent: Young People, Sexuality and Citizenship (Palgrave Macmillan, 2005). He is editor, with Corinne Lennox, of Human Rights, Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in the Commonwealth: Struggles for Decriminalisation and Change (London: School of Advanced Study; free online at: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/