I don't know which way the cause & effect runs but I suspect both. 14 year old boys think it is cool to get laid and 14 year old girls think it is slutty. Where'd they get that idea? I don't think a girl is hard-wired to not like sex at a young age. I think maybe the opposite is true. When Mother Nature roars, she roars and her venom is obvious.
Assumably, two hundred years ago many young teen girls thought it quite normal to have sex.
Attitudes towards marriage, sex, taboos and so forth often spring forth from societal needs
[colonization] and biological ones [incest is bad]. At other times they must arise chaotically with no obvious advantage to society at all [anal sex, homosexuality]. Maybe it's just that the interests of the individual, the family, and the society aren't always homogeneous.
A darwinian societal and tribal culling mechanism may have been and may still be at work.
Those societies with the wrong sexual taboos may have perished because it may have made them inferior to the tribe next door. Ten guys and one hundred women screams for polygamy. Too many men? Send them off to war. Men are expendable anyway.
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