Age Gap Relationships

@baka Depending on where in the world and how far back in time you are speaking of it was more influenced by the average lifespan of human beings because if you go back a certain number of years the average human lifespan was drastically shorter than what we have nowadays. At one point if you were 20 years old you were pretty much an old man at that point and you wouldn't live more than about 10 or 15 years beyond that if you were lucky so to marry at 14 or 16 would seem normal otherwise you would have very little time left in your life let alone Be Alive long enough to raise your children to an age where they could support themselves and learn how to live in the world.

Actually, at no point has living to twenty been considered "old". Statistics skew things since infant mortality used to be very, very high(They used to not even name kids until at least one year old. Wouldn't want to become so attached and then have them die.), as well as women dying during child birth. Let's take "ye olden" days, living into your sixties was no rarity, but living until you were five was a bit problematic. Get it? What we view as "relationships" is the odd part. For a looooong time, families married into other families for wealth/resources and often were betrothed at a young age to start popping out those farm hands(Well, and to ensure some of the kids survived until adulthood.). I'm sure there were a myriad of other reasons, too. Point being, we didn't breed young because we died younger. Kids die easy and child birth is a bitch, but modern medicine helps in ways that even 100yrs ago people couldn't imagine.

No relationship experience myself, but my grandparents had a 10 year age gap between them, and were happily married for life, having 4 children along the way.

@yass I'm pretty sure I did my homework and back in the Middle Ages or even biblical times that life expectancy was so poor that 20 was considered to be old but who knows, maybe I'm wrong here.

Well in its own way living to 5 years old would be quite hard because of the living conditions and how vulnerable babies would be to all sorts of diseases and such. That's not even counting any kind of birth defects or immune system weaknesses or anything else of the sort.

@animekid I got triggered in all honesty at the thought of people thinking it's to ok to go in a relationship with such a young person because "But ThE lAw SayS thE agE oF ConsEnT is this" as you stare at that 15 year olds body when you're 50. Are you going to say the same thing when you have your own children who are 14-15 fucking around with some 40 year olds and be like "it's ok sweety, the law allows you to, I fully understand"? Laws don't make it automatically morally or ethically correct, back in the day it was a common thing for 12 yo to be married off and it still is in some days but I like to hope that we have evolved from those stages But in the end it's your own morals and ethics that influence your life deicisons :) This thread is a good way to say what some people find important and some not, too bad it doesn't still stop me from feeling sick.

I have hardly ever heard of a country where the age of consent in a post industrial country that was under 16, and when it is it's usually in a more conservative country that places other social barriers around sex. Yes there are places that exploit children, but that's not what we're discussing. We're discussing relationships between adults, the modern legal definition of adult.