Women menstruate at 10 in the US.... a pure physical reason won't fly.


I know of many groups here that buy their wives as soon as they grow breasts and menstruate. Most wait until there is proof she knows how to cook.


As far as moral disgust goes, we in the West wait so stinking long that I read the average man has 7 sex partners in his life and the average woman 4.

Probably at least some of these partners might be due to the difficulty of being ready for "it" but having your culture tell you that you need to finish another 4 years of college before you are ready to marry.


The Jews had a Bar Mitzah and a somethingfor girls right? Some sort of ritualized entrance into adulthood. It would seem that one would need to enter into adulthood according to that people before marriage could be seen as legit. That COULD happen much younger than the West is willing to concede.

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