Teenage Pregnancies are Normal Actually
How Modern Culture has Infantilised a Population
A society in which a 16-20 year old woman cannot get married and have babies without facing severe social problems is a society that is unhealthy on numerous levels. This statement itself is deeply offensive and taboo. Mainstream media lambasts teen moms as wayward girls who ruined their lives. Men who are attracted to women who look like they are in their late teens are called pedophiles. These are signs of a culture that is dangerously divorced from reality.
Every animal in the wild that reaches sexual maturity has the natural urge to reproduce. We must not forget that human beings have an animal nature as well as an intellectual-spiritual one. To ignore our animal nature is to participate in a dangerous hubris, like a lion pretending he does not need to eat flesh to live. In a modern society that is increasingly divorced from reality, our most basic instincts for physical attraction and reproduction are all that remain for us. Healthy grown men, for example, are attracted to women who are at sexual maturity. Healthy grown women want to be with these men and they want to have children. As modern society continues down the path of decadence and degeneracy, let us remind ourselves of these basic truths so that we may recalibrate our societies to work with our natures rather than against it.
For most of human history, teenage pregnancy was the norm. Nevertheless, the epistemologically handicapped throw conniptions whenever one defers to history to justify why we ought to do some things in certain ways. They do not realise that if something has worked forever, there is a reason why it works. Although democracy does not always guarantee the right answer, in this case we must assume either that all these cultures independently came to the wrong answer, or the right one.
If it was the wrong answer then their societies would have suffered for it, for example, with families falling apart due to prematurely giving girls the rights and responsibilities of women. Considering most cultures historically did not face the problems of relationships and family at the level that we face today, it is more likely that they had the right answer. More women are depressed today than ever before historically. There are fewer families being formed and the families that exist are far more likely to fall apart. These data tell us something about our thinking is incorrect where our ancestors’ might have been correct.
Let us then explore my “radical” statement from a scientific, psychological and social point of view.
Feminists Muddy the Waters so Real Pedophiles can Prosper
A young woman has a lot of power simply because there are many powerful men who are attracted to her and want to marry her. Old and bitter feminists likely lament the squandering of their own sexual power in their youth, resent young women who now own that power. Thus, they make arguments pretending to “protect” young women from “predators”. This would be a noble endeavour, except the people they call pedophiles are men who are attracted to women with the bodies of women, not children. A pedophile is someone attracted to the body of a child. To pretend that a sixteen year old woman looks like a child is ludicrous. It also muddies the water and prevents us from targeting and punishing real pedophiles who are mentally sick and attracted to real children.
Just because a girl has the body of a woman and can have children, it does not follow that a sixteen year old should marry a thirty year old man. However, for much of history, sixteen year olds did marry twenty year old men. Today, that would be considered a crime. (Yet, two men getting married is considered normal). In fact, teenage love affairs and weddings are considered strange and abnormal by modern society despite the fact that they were the norm for all of human history and all cultures. How could we have become so blind to our basic nature and biology?
Let us return to the question, is a sixteen year old ready to begin a family? Getting married and having children is a big responsibility to carry and it not one to be taken on lightly. This is a question of maturity, which I believe has been given a biological answer, where an environmental and cultural one is more appropriate. Our biology has not changed in the last one hundred years, but our societies certainly have. If women could have the maturity to begin families and get married in their late teens only one hundred years ago, and even today in many parts of the world, why are even twenty-one year olds who want to get married and have children lambasted by modern western Karens for being “too young and immature”?
When does the mind mature?
First, let us consider that heinous pseudoscientific statement “the brain does not complete development until age 25”. This statement is a lie. The statement is based on the fact that the prefrontal cortex of the brain continues to undergo changes in your early twenties. There is no scientific proof that the prefrontal cortex is the only area responsible for logical decision making. This is a common misinterpretation that is a part of an old hypothesis of the brain that different areas of the brain are uniquely responsible for different functions. This may be true for low-resolution functions such as sensory and motor responses. But higher level processing is known to be a function that is distributed across not only brain areas, but brain networks. Even the function of higher level vision processing tracks across the whole brain, so to diminish “higher level decision making” to one area of the brain is asinine.