Wondering

[colebiancardi]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
>
> Del:
> > Granted it's been now a good couple of centuries in Western countries
> > that girls of 14 or 15 are not routinely married off anymore...
> 
> Lessee, Juliet (of Romeo fame) was thirteen when we find her mother 
> trying to marry her off to a much older Count Paris. Juliet's mother 
> tells us that not only was she herself already a wife and mother at 
> thirteen but that girls even younger than Juliet were already running 
> around barefoot and pregnant. Yet I've never heard anyone suggest Paris 
> was a pervert for lusting after young girls.
> 
> Autre fois, autre temps.


colebiancardi:
last time I checked, that play was written over 400 years ago and it
was set in a much earlier time period than the late 1500's.

and women back in those days died young, due to childbirth
complications or just plain ol' wore out by having too many
children/miscarriages.

times change.  And if this happened today, yes, Count Paris would be a
pervert.

colebiancardi