Different times and places have had different customs. (And I’ve known teen girls who were far more sophisticated than some 21 year old men.)
History is full of older men - often much older - who married younger women, even teenage girls. I don’t think the girls all thought they were ‘exploited’. Often they and their families were exploiting the men!
Depending on the ages involved, society has frowned upon older men/ young girls for many years. Jerry Lee Lewis was a scandal many years ago.
It’s a complicated topic, because you have true perverts who have an interest in children, then you have legal restrictions which get into older ages, and you also have what is considered unacceptable in society.
I’m thankful to be at an age where I find women under 25 to be frightening,I could not imagine dealing with that level of immaturity.
My MIL was 15 when she married my FIL who was 28. She was the oldest daughter in a family of 10 kids with an alcoholic father & just wanted out of there. She also looked 18 physically. They stayed together almost 50 yrs, even after my FIL spent 4 mos in jail at the age of 75 for sexually abusing several of my nieces. It turns out he really was a pedophile.
“Antisemite as well.”
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Interestingly, his father is Jewish. Or, more accurately, JINO.
So I don’t think he is an antisemite, I just think that he is incredibly immature, and absolutely disgusting. In other words, he’s the perfect Democrat candidate for the present time.
Cool your jets. I was responding to the person who simply posted this:
'My grandmother was 16 when she got married (grandpa was 20 I think). Probably wouldn’t fly nowadays but they stayed together till the end which is more than I can say for most marriages today.'
if you are 21 and there person is 3 or mor years younger the relationship is exploitative. pedophilia is definitely interest before puberty but after puberty unless there is only a one- or two-year age it never should be encouraged