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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E who wrote (42888)	7/1/1999 8:20:00 PM
From: Father Terrence	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

My such a long, nice post! Anyway... no, I am not fooling. Your perspective is programmed by your culture and what you have been taught. If you were out West in the 1840s you might be glad to marry off your daughter to an older man and add his skills and experience to your family. Or if you lived in certain cultures in the Middle East or Asia or Africa, you might sell your daughter into marriage even younger than 14. Or you might let her become a concubine/test wife to a successful business man for a year for a stipulated dowry, with a greater sum to follow if he decided to make her a permanent wife. Since human beings are ready to become sexually active as early as 11 or 12, it is only the artificial constraints of a society that dictates when two people can begin experiencing sexual union. Right now, in the United States of America, that age happens to be older than 12 (except under certain circumstances in certain states). As for the age difference you speak of -- age is relative. What right does an individual, let alone the State, have to dictate that a couple are the wrong age for each other? Besides, as U.S. science continues to map out the DNA structure and forge ahead with stunning progress in understanding the aging process and what may slow or even reverse it to a degree, discovering the keys to aging and death, it may even be possible that eventually humans will be able to live 100s of years. At that point most of the issues of age truly become moot. FT