In human history, yes. But even 130 years ago, it was still pretty creepy for the 14 year old girl to marry a mature man and do his bidding. My daughter and I listen to the Little House on the Prairie books in the car. When Laura and her cousin were around 14, riding ponies across the prairie when the chores for their families were done, they chatted about another schoolgirl they knew who had gotten married to an older man. They were a bit horrified and felt it terribly sad to have the childhood end so suddenly.
Today, we have the age of consent as 18. Maybe somewhat arbitrary, but high school girls just don’t have enough wisdom and experience to handle what thirty year old men know about sex and human relationships. I do think that it is horrible for girls to be held in emotional and intellectual bondage by mature men. I think it is more appropriate for most couples to be of similar stature and age. Not that I don’t wish freedom for all, but the age of 18 is fine for me as the age of consent. Even then, does your daughter have enough wisdom not to pose for playboy, say? Or do a little porn for the rest money?
The men in their 30s interested in me as a teen lacked control, filters, and had some arrested development even if they were prominent in society like Moore was. It’s not a great trait. He was apparently pretty out and open with ihis penchant at the time. And is embarrassed at the least by it today.
“But even 130 years ago, it was still pretty creepy for the 14 year old girl to marry a mature man and do his bidding. My daughter and I listen to the Little House on the Prairie books in the car.”
Well, that settles it. Little House on the Prairie is binding authority on human norms through the ages.
I did not know him but I did know both my great-grandmother and my grandmother. She was still receiving a civil war pension when she died in 1962 (at the age of 97).
This was not in the south but in the northern state of Pennsylvania. They were strict Methodists.
No one thought it was "creepy" and my grandmother would be 131 years old now.
This is merely a figment of your imagination brought about by willingly believing liars, due to your own wounds. For your own peace of mind, IMHO you should avoid threads about Moore.
The age of consent in most states is 16, including Alabama.
You are correct. Which is why it was traditional that a man gain the approval and agreement of the girl's PARENTS (who presumably WOULD have the wisdom and experience to decide if the man would be good for her) before being allowed to court her and ultimately marry her.
The current trend of women marrying later and later in life (in 1960, the median age of first marriage was 20, now it's 26), and thus having fewer children, is not good for society.