[Corkey]

Originally Posted by Rufusboi

On the one hand I think you are right that we have to be careful about one culture telling another culture what they can and cannot do. On the other hand their are many women and girls fighting this tradition. Is it their fight only and we should just butt out and watch from the sidelines?

For me, a 10 or 12 year having sex with an adult male isn't just rape it is legal pedophilia. I can't imagine why an adult man would want to have sex with a 10 year old child.

I often think it is easy to call something like this tradition in order to get other countries to back off. Yet it seems that many of these "traditions" seem to hurt women and girls both physcially and psychologically.

I can't even think of one tradition that impacts the physical, sexual, mental, and emotional health of boys and men on a wide reaching cultural level. Perhaps there are/were some but nothing is coming to mind right now.

Rufus

I will support the women and children's right to choose, not sit idly by and watch it happen. In the end it still a matter of their culture, how I see it doesn't concern the men who keep this alive. If it did it would have stopped eons ago. I don't know where we keep coming up with our way is always better than another cultures. We as an americian society can't even stop this on our own shores. I have a healthy respect for women and children who can change their societies from their view point. It still isn't up to me to interject my opinion on how they comport themselves. These are my thoughts not arguing with you.