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The first age of consent laws weren't passed until 1275 in England. Prior, pedophilia has been practiced throughout all known human history and yet here we are today. In 7th century Europe, 3-year-old girls were burned to death and tortured in Europe for copulating with demons, witches and sorcerers. Jean Bodin, one of the greatest legal authorities of his time, said that the appropriate age of consent for a female was 6 years old. At the time it was widely believed that most child-adult relations were the result of promiscuous children seeking mature men as opposed to the belief today that it is instead pedophiliac adults preying upon innocent, unsuspecting children. But then in the 13th century, 12 was set as the minimum age whereas in most of Britain's colonies it tended to be lower. Such as America where it was generally 10 - 12 in most states (7 in Delaware) until California changed their AOC to 14 in 1889 after fears spread of prostitution, which was when many other states soon followed between the 1890s - 1910s. By the 1920s, it was changed again to 16 - 18 after activism on the part of feminists and Christians.
To say that sex with a minor should lead to torture is ignoring the fact that most females reach puberty at around 10 - 12 while some others reach sexual maturity even earlier than that. There was a 9 year old girl who became pregnant in Thailand not that long ago. Even if you read the Bible, you would know that pedophilia is not condemned anywhere. In fact, quite the opposite. Read Numbers 31:7-18, Exodus 21:7-11 and Numbers 31:35-40. Also read Leviticus 20:10-21.
10: Don’t lie with another man’s wife.
11: Don’t lie with your father’s wife.
12: Don’t lie with your daughter-in-law.
13: Don’t lie with another man.
14: Don’t take a wife and her mother.
15: Don’t lie with a beast.
16: Don’t let another woman lie with a beast.
17: Don’t lie with your sister.
18: Don’t lie with a woman while she’s menstruating.
19: Don’t uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister or your father’s sister.
20: Don’t lie with your uncle’s wife.
21: Don’t lie with your brother’s wife.
Pedophilia is mentioned NOWHERE.
According to the Catholic Encyclopedia:
“Joseph married a woman called Melcha or Escha by some, Salome by others; they lived forty-nine years together and had six children, two daughters and four sons, the youngest of whom was James (the Less, the “Lord’s brother”).
A year after his wife’s death, as the priests announced through Judea that they wished to find in the tribe of Juda a respectable man to espouse Mary, then twelve to fourteen years of age, Joseph, who was at the time ninety years old.”
That article on Catholic Encyclopedia obtains it’s information from early Christian writings including Apocryphal writings.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/08504a.htm
According to the Priest of Saint Mary’s Catholic Church:
“Mary was approximately 14 years old when she got pregnant with Jesus. Joseph, Mary’s husband is believed to be around 36. Mary was only 13 when she married Joseph. When she first was arranged with Joseph she was between 7 to 9 years old.”