Reply #8: back then it had more to do with the idea that women were property

[dugaresa]

and less to do with maturity.

Young men having sex at any time in history was viewed as their testing the waters and encouraged as a learning experience.

Young women having sex was only condoned if she was joined in marriage or if she was a prostitute. If she was the latter, her life was basically shit and in some rare cases she might be fortunate to make a living and do well if her patron(s) were well off enough and if she managed to keep them enthralled long enough and save her cash.

It is only in recent times that women began to have legal rights to their own children. All they were viewed as were breeding vessels/property. Children were property as well, but to be a girl child you went from being your father's property to being your husbands property.

60 years ago even, spend the night out with a young man and not even have sex and your reputation would be ruined and any chance for a good marriage would be taken off the table. You would be soiled goods.

In Pretty Baby, a child who had never been touched was viewed as a trophy for some rich man to despoil as I recall. Bidding on the rights to deflower a young girl/object.

At any time in history and even today, men can sleep around and it is seen as their right and they are lionized, not so much for women.

We are either Madonnas or Whores.

If we are raped, we are judged by our past, we are judged by who we know, what we drank and ate and even what we might have worn that caused that poor man to act out of control. Was the pretty object wearing something so alluring? Was the pretty object drunk? Was the pretty object a slut?