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I'm running into this wall. (Probably common)
I'm writing a character that's 14 and getting married at 16 (according to the original legend), but according to my research, it was normal for men (via the Kama Sutra) to ummm... bed girls as young as 8 (with instructions on how to do so.)
Kama Sutra was written in about 200 years later or so after my book starts. (You know what I mean--I know, mangled sentence.)
The age of marriage didn't raise to 15-16, until the Mughal Empire with, I believe, Akbar. (a thousand years plus a few hundred later)
How do I get past the squick without the gut-jumping racism, etc that would come with it?
Or, how in general, do you get past the modern cultural changes v. the real history (Such as torture?) without making your characters, ya know, unlikable?
I'm writing a character that's 14 and getting married at 16 (according to the original legend), but according to my research, it was normal for men (via the Kama Sutra) to ummm... bed girls as young as 8 (with instructions on how to do so.)
Kama Sutra was written in about 200 years later or so after my book starts. (You know what I mean--I know, mangled sentence.)
The age of marriage didn't raise to 15-16, until the Mughal Empire with, I believe, Akbar. (a thousand years plus a few hundred later)
How do I get past the squick without the gut-jumping racism, etc that would come with it?
Or, how in general, do you get past the modern cultural changes v. the real history (Such as torture?) without making your characters, ya know, unlikable?