>>20285458(cont.)
"It is also more conductive to restraint that daughters should be no longer young when their fathers bestow them in marriage, because it seems that women who have sexual intercourse at an early age are more likely to be dissolute. [...] Accordingly, we conclude that the appropriate age for the union is about the eighteenth year for girls and for men the thirty-seventh. With such timing, their union will take place when they are physically in their prime, and it will bring them down together to the end of procreation at exactly the right moment for both."
—Arist., Politica, trans. T.A Sinclair, Third Edition (1992), Penguin, London, VII, XVI, 1335a12-15
