This just came to mind because I genuinely am just curious, but off the top of my head, 'if she bleeds' was never something that a predominantly white society practiced, not even the medieval period.
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The vast majority of documentation through history involves the noble classes, because who would write about fucking peasants? Nobles engaged in all sorts of ridiculous bullshit regarding politics and behavior the rest of society wouldn't even consider. So whatever we know historically for most nations is like taking Epstein as a sign of what all Americans were doing.
Given that puberty in girls has been trending earlier as industrial society progresses, its almost a certainty that "she bleedin'" was a mid-teen thing for most of history anyway. An age when most boys were already working actual jobs, if they weren't years into hard labor on the family business anyway, because the concept of adulthood were usually based around them. So they wouldn't be some innocent "child wife," but more of more world ready highschooler.
Not to mention that for most of white societies, the father had to give his daughter away. Most of them weren't gonna just toss her out to the first pervert that showed up unless he was rich as shit. So it doesn't matter if you could legally do it, you still had to manage it and most people who talk about it lack both the social skills and the capital to have ever done so.
Good analysis of what's going on here. So many people, even on these forums, get caught up debating "what's the right age?" that they entirely miss the real world issues that they're attempting to define. They approach it from the perspective of regulating a recreational activity rather than one of the most deeply significant issues which defines the course of most people's lives. It might be easy to imagine a consensual one night stand, while missing the harm done by arranged child marriages.
Edit: I actually have a pet theory that the focused debate on age is deliberately ignoring the base reason we care: that much older people can easily mislead younger people due to their significantly greater experience with life as a human. I feel as though, if we were to have a significant discussion about this type of abuse it may threaten some significant tech companies who take advantage of the same lack of worldly experience to addict and entrap youth openly. A very significant portion of which does, in fact, prey upon youthful sex drives.