Not equating, just genuinely curious. Different societies claim adulthood at different ages. Jewish males are treated as adults after their Bar Mitzvah, which occurs around their 13th birthday. I am going out on a limb here, but I would be willing to guess that in Biblical times anyone over 13 was an adult.
We’ve decided 18 or 21 (or 27) is now adulthood. Why is our age requirement better than their age requirement?
” Why is our age requirement better than their age requirement?”
The subject of this thread is fornication, and child sexual abuse.
I guess you think, if someone has been bar mitzvah’d, and then an adult has sex with him, it is no longer criminal or predatory, since the boy in question has bar mitzvah’d.
No, not everyone over 13 was considered an adult in biblical times, or according to Scripture. Men married lawfully when they were able to support a wife and children. Women married them upon consent of their parents. Parents considered their age as well as every other factor when agreeing, or not, to a match.
I am not opposed to boys or girls marrying if they are under 18, with parental permission, as our laws currently allow. It is biblical, it can be very right, it is fine.
I am opposed to adults molesting children.
If this teacher wanted a husband, she could have tried to marry him. She wanted a f*** toy. He is not a f*** toy. He is a human being with innocence and a soul who was exploited and degraded. Regardless of whether he “enjoyed” it or not.