Pink Floyd Breathe <| sep |> There is an age of consentAge of consent varies by time and place . You ' re talking about age of consent as if it ' s some kind of absolute standard in nature . Age of consent was as low as 1012 years in most states in USA back in 1880 , are you saying it was okay to be married at that age back then ? Age of consent varies in different states and countries today . Some have it high as 18 or 21 and others have it low as 14 or even lower than that . It changed throughout history , and it will very likely change in years to come . There is no absolute rule here . even in their early 20 s most people don ' t have fully developed frontal lobes . The frontal lobe ' s major role is executive function and to think about consequences far into the future . Now if you don ' t understand why that might be a problem for a fully developed person trying to convince a developing person that they should have sex without the developing person being able to fully understand the consequences is an issue you got some issues kiddo . What you ' re doing here is no different than what many other societies have done throughout history . You are trying to rationalize an acceptable minimum age of marriage that you think would be beneficial for those getting married . The problem is that you seem to think your argument here is an objective one . Different societies came up with their own reasoning to justify their appropriate age of marriage . Stop defending pedos you sick fuck . Pedophilia is the sexual attraction of prepubescent children . It wasn ' t discussed here .