moral corruption: creeping at lower ages

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Seems like humans have a huge disconnect between when they are, physically, able and driven to have sex, and when their brains actually become 100% mature, which is at the age of 25. This might be a carryover from when the average life expectancy was south of 40 years...

That being said I think we SHOULD teach kids, as soon as they hit puberty, how to have sex RESPONSIBLY (don't just jump into bed with anyone who asks, use condoms/other birth control, and if you do get pregnant, give the baby up for adoption if you're still in high school or otherwise not ready to raise children.) Otherwise, they will NEVER learn and if they do obey strict commands not to do it out of fear, they'll only end up being JUST AS irresponsible about it when they go to college.

I also think that if it is not already, we should make it explicitly legal for those 18-20 to drink alcohol under parental supervision. That way they'll learn their limits and how it affects their judgment in an environment where they have much less opportunity to do something stupid.

When I was a teenager back in the 1970s in a small town in Scotland, there wasn't much talk of drink or drugs, although I had known three people who smoked cannabis, all of whom were girls.

On the other hand, sex was a common subject of conversation, although most of us were sexually inexperienced.

However, if a teenage boy and girl are in love and having sex, I don't see anything wrong with that.

I am against porn because I think that it is degrading and will give young people the idea that sex is dirty and disgusting when it should be beautiful and enjoyable. In the same way nudity should be seen as something natural and not to be ashamed of.

I don't think anyone should be coerced into having sex.

The occasional joint may be OK but I would watch too much alcohol and/or hard drugs.

Incidentally, another point which many people miss is that youngsters are physically maturing sexually at a younger age all the time. This is a physical process of evolution which cannot be stopped and may prove to be necessary for the survival of the human race.

On the other hand, I think that there is too much silliness in the media, which is a separate matter.

If this statement were true, I would not have had a partial hysterectomy before I was 1 year old. I strongly suspect I was physically mature enough (from a man's POV) to have sex before I was a year old (1962). Some men were quite attracted to me physically long before I hit puberty. This is why child pornography is still so popular with some individuals. After I hit puberty, oddly enough, no one found me to be attractive anymore. Boys my age considered me to be a slut (I heard that word & others that were similar from nearly all of them...I suppose they were right about that. My reputation preceded me where ever I went. I also had a man approach me to say he found my 3 year old daughter to be very sexy. IDK Maybe it's just my genetics & my daughters' too, but being sexual is all about what's available & when. If a man (or woman) considers a child to be sexy & he/she has access to said child, there is little to stop them from using that child for their pleasure. It has little to do with sexual maturity of the child...if the adult considers the child to be sexy, he/she is ripe for sex in the adult's eyes. Corruption has probably existed long before there were any forms of written word. But there's a long history of examples since written forms of language evolved.

Tomboy

I have also checked my ancestry. I don't think any of my ancestors, Victorian era or otherwise, married before around 25, and I looked in vain for any evidence of births outside marriage.

Having said that, moral corruption seems to be happening early and is in disrepute probably because of life expectancy nowadays.

Before the industural revolution, it was not uncommon for girls to get married at 14.

Two hundred years ago, people drank all day. Kids too! But the beer was only .5 to 2% alcohol usually. Alcohol is a preservative, they didn't have refrigerators. It's bread in a bottle, and doesn't spoil as fast as the loaf.

Chronic widespread alcoholism, "gettin' smashed on the weekend" or "tying a few on" after work didn't really take off until the late 19th century, when people lost their craft jobs, went to go work in factories for 14 hours a day, and no longer had any time to take care of their own lives.

In England, alcoholism took off when William of Orange insisted of importing cheap gin from Holland without subjecting it to tax.

That started off the so-called gin-drinking period in England in the 18th Century when whole families got drunk on the streets.

Alcoholism has probably always existed. In ancient Greece, they drank large quantities of wine.