Someone raised the point on another thread that back in the 1700's and up until the industrial revolution that early marriage was common due tot he fact taht people matured faster becasue of the need to survive. Our counties history is replete with stories of pioneers that were married at 14-15 years old and moving out west.
My Great Grandfather came to this country at age 16 by himself.
Another ‘inconvenient truth’ that a lot of conservatives don’t like to talk about because of the ick factor is that puberty, the biological fact of it, is at odds with the whole must be 18 yo for sex thing.
Nature and society’s ideas of when the sex is A OK are two very different things. And natures version of ready puts it squarely into society’s definition of pedo. The problem REALLY comes in the discussion. Because it is all but impossible to have a straight discussion of it without someone screaming YOU SUPPORT PEDOPHILIA!