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In a now deleted tweet, weirdo Azealia Banks shares that "fucking 14 year old girls was really only made a social taboo in the 1990s" (discuss.online)

submitted 2 months ago by bytesonbike@discuss.online to c/political_weirdos@lemmy.world

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[–] phutatorius@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That was because the age of menarche (first menstruation) in medieval times in Europe was in the 18-19 range. Malnutrition delays menarche. The vast majority of people then were peasants, and peasants were not wonderfully well-fed.

More body fat? More estrogen production.

[–] gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 months ago

do you have a good source on that? it sounds very interesting