is this hypcritical about girls in the olden girls to girls modern day?

Question

history intrigues me. lately we have been doing about how girls in the olden days up through victorian times from the age of 12 were not classed as children. they were classed as women. probably the earliest age a girl usually may menstruate at makes this viable and so therefore known as little women. there was no such thing as child prostituiton, the girls were women. people as young as ten could be hung for crimes, 12 year olds were expected to get work.

then all of a sudden centuries later 12 years old is classed as child or pre teenager. from 1950s era the teenager was born, James Dean had part to do with this. and suddenly the world has changed.

so just a very controversal question here which like or dislike needs bringing to the surface? if a man slept with a teenager then why was it different than now? the moral standards have been changed practically but have they physically? is that why the world is now in uproar and people freaking out labelling some men pedophiles. does this mean that centuries ago there were thousands of pedophiles and that girls were easier than today? or are these people who fell in love cos legally and biologically it was allowed?

why the different standards for today? why has society greatly changed? or has it?

this is all very deep and reverts back to history. what are your opinions?

Answer 1

Interesting question and one not all that comfortable. I think of the old Brooke Shields move - Pretty Baby - an extremely disturbing portrayal of a young girl growing up in a house of ill repute 1917. Brooke was filmed with full frontal and rear nudity at age 12 and portrayed having sex.



In answer protracted adolescence was not a luxury that anyone could afford. There was childhood and adulthood and no transitional phase. Fertility dropped of due to nutrition by the mid twenties and women needed to be married and begin making babies ASAP for practical reasons.



Now the uncomfortable questions - sexually yes girls age 12 have had and will continue to have sex with adult males. The small accordion like folds of the vagina make if possible for a youth like this to accommodate a male organ with reasonable comfort after the loss of virginity.



I once counselled with a young woman who with her sister suffered terrible sexual abuse. From age 9 she and her sister were sold as bondage slaves for a private group of abusers by their parents. She remembers her sister at age 12 already very sexually experienced having sex with man after man all night while making good noises and obviously being repeatedly orgasmic while strangers used her body. They basically were forced to become hyper sexual to survive. So yes very young girls can have sex and are physically able to enjoy it.



Unquestionably something has been gained and yes lost in the change of standards. While protecting young people was a noble goal such things as child labor laws restrict opportunities for some youngsters. Sexually - some are probably ready - probably over ready by the time society views them as old enough an they might have fared better with a more socially accepted early entry into adulthood. You raise a complex question for which there are not easy answers - it would seem today many college kids have less common sense and maturity than the new "adults" of yeaster-year who had far fewer years of life behind them



Perhaps too these younger girls benefited from older men - many a young woman today intentionally seeks older men at least as lovers because they desire the maturity, and knowledge combined with sexual skills. So perhaps we are not all that different even if we have delayed we have not prevented such unions.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

as well as physical maturity covered well in another answer here,we also give much more cosideration to emotional or psychological maturity.

while some of us never 'grow up',others are judged to be mature in UK at 16,,,other countries say 18,,etc etc,.it varies.

One theory has it that girls mature earlier in the tropics.

personall,18 seems about right.

but its not a rule that fits every persons' rate of development.