The US is pretty extreme, you have at the same time easy access to all the pornography you want (unless you’re in states that require age verification), and also a very prude culture. It’s not the only place with such contradictions though
replyTexas is particularly wild to me as a midwesterner. All the bibles and megachurches and all that and... They have strip clubs freaking everywhere! Really weird zoning laws as well - I recall seeing a strip club across the street from an Office Depot, next to a deli. The suburbs where I live, you have to go to a seedy part of town so you feel good and ashamed about it. lol
replySome TV shows rightfully take aim at this contradiction (recently: The Hunting Wives).
That’s hilarious!
replyThe age of consent in the PI was like 14 until a couple years ago when they changed it to roughly match international norms, in their culture it was considered consensual rather than abuse until very recently.
replyYou can get married with parental or a judge consent at any age in Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma.
replyYou can get married at 15 in Hawaii and Kansas.
You are "grandfathered" into sexual consent (not as in "marital rape" but "no longer statutory rape") when you do so.
So we may not want to be lording it too much on "international norms", particularly given that most of the marriages that happen at those ages are not "young couple got pregnant" but "older man in conservative/religious community".