Child Molestation

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You are bit unclear here, first you give an example of man made laws for rape, and then you ask if a man that is 18 can have sex with a girl under 15?


Are these two questions connected somehow? I don't quite understand HOW.

I am asking if under Islamic Law if man over the age of 18 has relations with girl under the age of 18, if that is considered child molestation?


I give no clarity regarding legal status.

If a young man is MARRIED to a young woman they can have sex TOGETHER, yes, but not with anyone else that they are not married to. But if they are unmarried they cannot have sex with each other or anyone else either, before they marry.


It is not that common to marry early, I think, not today anyway, but if you have reached puberty and you are mature enough to do it, then it is possible.

Are you saying that the definition of maturity is based on reaching puberty?


Is this an Islamic definition of maturity in the human species?

I think this was more common in earlier days, even others than Muslims did practice this. Maybe they came to be more responsible at an earlier age and grow up faster, faster than today?

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You confuse me.


First you convey puberty as a defining moment of female maturity, then you indicate the measure of adulthood is found in "being responsible".


Which is it? Does a female become mature upon reaching puberty, or by demonstrating responsibility?


One is a biological state of being, and the other a learned behaviour.


I am not sure how you would use either condition in defining what constitutes child abuse by an adult. It seems clear cut to me that there is such a thing as being a child and being an adult, and that sexual contact between the two is abhorent.


Let me rephrase my question. Do you consider sexual relations between a man over the age of 18 and a child under the age of 13 child abuse or molestation?


Assume that they are married under Islamic Law, because in western civilization such marriages are not allowed at all.


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