It was nonconsensual only in the legal sense, which says that no one under 18 is capable of giving consent. In Japan, the magic age is 13 (
http://www.ageofconsent.com/japan.htm).
Biologically, the average age for the start of puberty in females is about age 10, with first menstruation on average at age 12, although two years either way is still normal (
http://www.drspock.com/faq/0,1511,8768,00.html).
Until about 1800 life expectancy was very low, perhaps 20 to 30 years, for most of the world. In 1900 life expectancy in the United States was still only 47 years (
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/senior/story1.htm).
Can you imagine back then, if we had some silly law that said that you couldn't consent to having sex until you were 18? You'd probably be dead in 7 years, by that time. You'd die when your child was 6. Well, 200 years is not very long ago, on the evolutionary scale.
We're living longer now, so in some rationalization, it might seem logical that people should be having sex for the first time at a later age, too. But have we really biologically changed that much? I don't think that's possible. It's just medicine and technology that are preventing us from dying from things that used to kill us earlier.
When puberty gets its momentum, you're biologically ready for sex. I'm sure most of you experienced that. How old was it for you? It seems strange to me that, while this is happening, we have these invented rules that say that "no, you cannot have sex with this person that you've met and become attracted to, because you are not __ years old."
Sometimes, I think about moving to Japan, where I can have sex orgies with 16 and 17-year old pigtailed schoolgirls in plaid miniskirts. America is too conservative for me. When I'm hungry, I want to eat. When I'm tired, I want to sleep. And when I'm horny, I want to fuck. Twelve year old boys all over the country would rejoice if they were allowed to have sex with their hot 3 4year old teachers. I'm happy for Mary Kay Letourneau and Vili Fualaau (
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articl...an_to_wed/). I hope they have a happy marriage. If it were me, I'd probably be bitter as fucking hell at the system that put Mary Kay in prison for 7.5 years.
I think people are living too long. What's the point? We should all look at Logan's Run as an example. When you start getting the urge to fuck, you should just fuck, and have fun, and when you start getting old and unattractive, they should just explode you in the Carousel ceremony. In the movie, it was 30. But that was a while ago. It should probably be 45.
I have pet rats. Sometimes I put males and females together, so I can have more pet rats. When they're of the right age, they'll fuck. They'll fuck, and I'll see them fucking, and I'll say to myself, "how come those rats get to fuck, just as soon as they see fit, and there's no legal entanglements or shit, but in my life, it's this big fucking issue?" It's fucking bullshit.
Oh yeah, in case someone wants to know, I'm 35.