Please don’t ask me to provide proof of this, but I read some years ago that Joseph was in his nineties when he took Mary as his wife. If that is the case, then why would you think it strange that Mary and Joseph did not have an intimate marriage? How well do you think you will me functioning when you reach that age. Yes, and in those days, a few people did live to a ripe old age.
If there's no proof for it, then why does anyone believe it, besides the fact that it conveniently fits one's theology?
Sorry, but the whole notion fails the smell test UTTERLY AND COMPLETELY. There are too many twists and contortions you have to go through to accept the “perpetual virgin” tale. Occam’s Razor. She and Joseph were NOT so far apart in age: their lives became as normal as one could expect for the mother of the Messiah. NOT, by the way, the mother of God, as He has no mother or father, being immortal. She was the mother of His Son’s human personae and nothing more, yet the RC church venerates her as the fourth member of the Godhood.
Given that the Bible makes no specific reference either way, by the church’s own word, WHY IS IT SO VITAL TO THEM??? Why do they virtually WORSHIP her? I would LOVE to hear THAT story.