I'm pretty sure for most of history in a societies men of virtually any age could marry any girl and impregnate her once she's pubescent, as is God's will.
So this indicates that pedophilia itself is a modern concept that has served as a smokescreen for the actual culprits: promiscuity/less marriage and families. All humans have clear instinctive preferences for mates: ideally both are young, of the same race and culture, symmetrical faces etc. Certainly homosexuality was made unthinkable, as proven by the importance of Sodom Gomorrah etc. MArriages were arranged rather than relying on an abstraction (love) and arbitrary series of social "dates" and utterly unspecial sexual encounters.
I'm an anthropologist. It's true that having sex with teenagers was quite common throughout most of early human history. Human lives were often short. People found mates and started families early. In the past however, girls became pubescent much later than they do today because of hormones now added to our food and water supply. Age of menarche was traditionally around 15-18 years old. Having sex with prepubescent children has never been of an evolutionary value and most everyday people in most everyday societies throughout time have frowned on it.
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DonKeyhote ago
I'm pretty sure for most of history in a societies men of virtually any age could marry any girl and impregnate her once she's pubescent, as is God's will.
So this indicates that pedophilia itself is a modern concept that has served as a smokescreen for the actual culprits: promiscuity/less marriage and families. All humans have clear instinctive preferences for mates: ideally both are young, of the same race and culture, symmetrical faces etc. Certainly homosexuality was made unthinkable, as proven by the importance of Sodom Gomorrah etc. MArriages were arranged rather than relying on an abstraction (love) and arbitrary series of social "dates" and utterly unspecial sexual encounters.
brokencookie ago
I'm an anthropologist. It's true that having sex with teenagers was quite common throughout most of early human history. Human lives were often short. People found mates and started families early. In the past however, girls became pubescent much later than they do today because of hormones now added to our food and water supply. Age of menarche was traditionally around 15-18 years old. Having sex with prepubescent children has never been of an evolutionary value and most everyday people in most everyday societies throughout time have frowned on it.
3141592653 ago
Girls are often hitting puberty as young as 9 years old these days. That does NOT make them mature or ready for sexual relationships! They are kids!!