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To: fr_freak
I believe the word is ephebophilia. However, it strikes me as a sort of made-up condition. Either a female is of child-bearing age (and appears so) and will therefore be attractive to a male, or she is not and we have pedophilia. Marrying girls off while they were teenagers, even to men much older, was commonplace up until rather recently in the USA and elsewhere.

In olden days, it was common to have girls getting married off not long after puberty. Meanwhile, the husband had to be old enough to support a family. The Virgin Mary was most likely between 12 and 14 when she married Joseph.

100 posted on 01/09/2016 8:34:57 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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To: PapaBear3625

Likely the reason to marry quite young was b/c many people died before the age of 40 ... Many died from diseases that we no longer contend with; but also because of poor sanitary practices and living / working conditions. Large families were typical b/c it was not uncommon for half of the children to perish before reaching puberty, and also b/c many hand wore required for all the manual labor.


101 posted on 01/09/2016 4:08:35 PM PST by WTFOVR (I find myself exclaiming that expression quite often these days!)
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