One thing I haaaaaate with a passion is all the “ephebephiles” (cuZ they hate being lumped in with the pedos 🙄) claiming that 18 is an arbitrary age for adulthood in young girls and that if times were different and we weren’t so socially regressive than 12-14 would be the age of consent.

WRONG. In addition to it being morally repugnant for a grown man to sexualize an adolescent, it’s actually fucking dangerous.

You know what happens in countries where child marriage is the norm? Frequent Maternal and infant death.

This has been studied repeatedly. Giving birth in your 20s is far safer for both mother and child then giving birth in the teen years:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC411126/

Complications from pregnancy and childbirth are the leading cause of death in young women aged 15 to 19 in developing countries, warned a report published last week. An estimated 70 000 adolescent mothers die each year because they have children before they are physically ready for parenthood, the report says.​says.

https://www.who.int/maternal_child_adolescent/data/causes-death-adolescents/en/

Leading causes of adolescent girls' deaths in 2016 were maternal conditions,

https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-pregnancy

Adolescent mothers (ages 10 to 19 years) face higher risks of eclampsia, puerperal endometritis, and systemic infections than women aged 20 to 24 years

Don’t let grown creeps normalize sex with teenagers!