40 years ago, when I was 26, I attended a number of weddings between teenagers 16-19 years of age. Several of the couples had to apply for special license, to marry, since the law in northern Europe didn´t permit that young couple to marry. You must be at least 18 years in this area of the world. The obvious reason for these couples to marry fast, was sexual frustration! They were JW,s and was not allowed to masturbate nor to have “boy or girl friends”. 9 months after their “marriage” there was a child borne. 2-3 years later, these couples were all separated. None of these families are still in “the truth”. I know still some of these children that that never had the “love feelings” from their parents that every child has the right to expect.
In some cultures or “civilization” it is still “morally accepted” that girls are “given away” to older men at the age of 10-12 .
The sexuality of men and woman, forces us to do things that we know are “morally” bad. This according to what we have learned from our childhood. But the moral standard varies from place to place. I think that the WTBS standard causes more problem both for men and woman and children. To be open minded and openly discuss our sexuality and behavior will improve that men, women, and children will understand this strange mechanism that arouses from our hormones and obviously are a very essential part of both animals and humans.
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