David Cameron has rejected as "repulsive" a suggestion by officials that the age of sexual consent in Britain might be relaxed from 16 to 14.
The change was among ideas floated by the Number 10 policy unit after being asked to come up with new ways of giving the public more personal freedoms in everyday life.
Among other recommendations was a relaxation of laws against nudity, but a Downing Street spokesman denied claims that was being considered.
He insisted there were no plans to lower the age of consent.
"The Prime Minister finds the idea repulsive and the idea was shot down outright," the spokesman said.
Asked about reforms to nudity laws, he added: "It's not something that the Prime Minister is considering."
Monday's mid-term review of the Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition said the Government would take further steps to "limit the scope" of the state "and extend our freedoms".
The age of consent has been 16 since 1875, but there have been calls for it to be lowered because a growing number of teenagers are becoming sexually active at a younger age.
Sky correspondent Alistair Bunkall said: "The thinking behind that is that anyone below the age of 16 is in effect criminalised if they engage in a sexual act with another person, and therefore it is harder to teach them sex education.
"As is the way often when you are trying to brainstorm, all sorts goes onto the table, a lot of it will never make it further than that.
"The Prime Minister described it as 'offensive' to at least one media organisation. To us, the prime minister's spokesman described it as being 'repulsive', so I think we can take from that it is not going to go anywhere."
Campaigners suggest criminalising young people makes it harder to advise them on issues such as contraception and pregnancy, and that safeguards could be included to ensure it only applied to youngsters of a similar age.
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