>>17804558On the subject of pedophilia, while it remained in other cultures, especially India where 75% of girls are sexually abused, it declined among the aryans and soon became a subject of revulsion and disgust.
Consider the anglo puritans where most girls were cloistered by their families until their early 20s when they were typically married off. Further, the lord of the manor would have to approve of the marriage. Although feudalism declined by the 13th century, tenants remained under the influence of whoever they paid rent to, since he could legally raise their rents or kick them off his land. Thus the institution of marriage followed various customs, first the prospective young man had to know a trade and earn an income, second he had to be of good character, no criminal record, went to church every Sunday, never spoke out against notables, third, the woman had to be at an age where death during childbirth is unlikely.
This can be seen in the parish rosters, men were typically in mid to late 20s and women in their early 20s. Though sometimes middle class men waited until their 30s since their vocations took longer to master and fully establish themselves rendering them deserving of a woman of their own class.
Men who could not get established were rarely married, and so were many poorer women, who might well have children anyway, but these would be the bottom most dregs of society and their children were unlikely to survive to adulthood.
Thus a kind of natural selection sunk in. Not just among the "well bred" upper class who could afford complicated matchmaking, but down to the well-to-do commoners who were not landless laborers, albeit rent paying tenants. The result, a high IQ and a society based around productivity and work, with upper-middle class anglos averaging 110+.
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