>>96971796
And you are forgetting that marrying teens to men in their 40s and older was common and uncommon at different points in time. Marrying off your kids young was something seen among the nobles, as you say, with the commoners being most likely to marry off in their late teens or early twenties.
We have whole sets of paintings from artists trying to shame the unions between younger girls and older men in Eastern Europe.
How it was common during the Interwar Period, because of a lack of young men, to marry your daughter to a much older man.
You think all the child marriages in the Midwest happened out of nowhere? They are carryovers from the traditions of immigrants who settled there.
Yes, the meme that the taboo around pedophilia is a modern thing is that. A meme.
Whatever passed for a good age to marry your teenage daughter to an adult man varied depending on era, culture, social stance, isolation and availability of age appropriate men and the sexual preferences of those in power. And you bet your ass they consumated at the convenience of the groom rather than "waiting until 20 somethings"
But yeah, you see an adult trying to put the moves on a child, you deal with him accordingly whether that's your child or not. Just felt like clarifying that in case this comment was going to be dimissed otherwise.
