Yes this is rape culture

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12. You are misquoting me.

"Children, however, have always been off limits in every stable society at every age in the history of humanity."

Stable societies protect children. Unstable ones, like ancient Sparta, practiced institutional pederasty as a control mechanism. And even they were adolescents and not strictly speaking children. Still, the whole society collapsed in two centuries. The modern Yemeni example is a society that is in a state of chaos right now. Traditionally, that would not have been allowed. And a young marriage, however wrong that is, did not necessarily mean immediate sexual conduct. Generally, in societies that allowed that sort of thing, sexual conduct would not occur for several years until the girl was what was considered a suitable age.

Pre-modern societies did not have mass media that sexualized everything. Erotic love as opposed to fraternal was not the default assumption as it is now. Many primary sources that have been read by modern readers as sexual in fact were not.