Paphitis wrote:Maximus wrote:Paphitis wrote:Don't forget the average life expectancy in those days was something like 35 if not less. I'm not sure what it was exactly.
But it wasn't unreasonable for girls and boys to be partnered at a very young age to have children and see them grow into teenagers where they too are partnered just before the parents inevitably die.
Those were different times.
the problem with this is that the average life expectancy included the very high infant / baby mortality rate of the time.
Maturity takes the same amount of time, irrespective of when people were born so a child will always have been a child. Different times but the human biology was the same.
Maturity? Are you joking?
Most people were friggin illiterate and probably led very basic and simple existences.
I was not talking about mental maturity. I was talking biological maturity.
In terms of biological maturity, a 9 year old back then was the same as a 9 year old today.
However since you mention that, I am keen to find out where you would have taken the debate. Are you saying that it would have been alright for a mature male to copulate with a 9 year old back then because they were thick?