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Sex with minors, slaves, women as legal property, rape, etc.

• defrost 4y ago
  * Between 2000 and 2018, nearly 232,474 minors were legally married in the United States. The vast majority of child marriages in the U.S. were between a minor girl and an adult man. In many cases, minors in the U.S. may be married when they are under the age of sexual consent, which varies from 16 to 18 depending on the state [1]. * Slaves, sure - although that's more of a societal wide situation in Rome rather than something "mostly in the bedroom" and it's hardly all that long ago since Civil Rights was a legal right within the US (and slavery | effectively slavery is still legal within parts of the world). * "Women as legal property" - we just covered slavery, see [2] for Woman as Citizens in Rome - no votes or political office, but a number did rule as Empress and many kicked arse in terms of power and negotiations. * Rape - as is the case today it was agaianst the law but the privileged could get away with it re: slaves and those of much lesser status .. nonetheless, see [3] There are famous tales of rape in Roman times, of course, just as there are in the US. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_marriage_in_the_United_S... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_ancient_Rome [3] https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol13/iss1/3/ https://repository.law.umich.edu/mjgl/vol13/iss1/3/