“...If Mom & Dad sent their 15 or 16 year old daughter off on such a jaunt, well, that’s another thing entirely and, in that case, there are LOTS of guilty parties including mom & dad pimping out their daughter....”
Happened all the time in the courts of Europe (I am sure in Asia, etc. too). It was a way for the family to advance forgo all that hard work. Of course, it could backfire!
Think of Henry VIII and ask the Boylens, the Howards, etc. how that gamble with their female progeny ultimately paid off!
Not excusing it, just saying its not new!
Sorry, hair trigger.