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The difference being that the majority of people were married and having kids decades earlier, so people were still having sex, just in the boundaries of social
by hobs 3y ago
The difference being that the majority of people were married and having kids decades earlier, so people were still having sex, just in the boundaries of social acceptableness.
My own grandmother told me how she married my horrible grandfather at 19 because she was 1) Horny and 2) Was not allowed to have sex with anyone until she got married.
- peteradio 3y ago[flagged]
- watwut 3y agoBut that is the thing - unless you study some specific place and time, all these are guesses. Because there were periods of rich where people married a lot ... and then there were periods and places where many people were single and unable to marry for various reasons. We were not multiplying exponentially all the time. And while in some village you would be married at around age of 16, in cities it was often much later. With men, oftentimes after military service which could take 7 years. Or after then amassed proprties, which easily meant sometimes before 30. There was sex with prostitues, but that one was also profoundly unsafe, the likelihood of STD was not exactly small.