TheBlackRabbitofInlé
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Do other religions consider girls aged 3 "are fit for sexual intercourse" or is
it just Judaism? "Although the three-year-old girl does not undergo any ritual introduction to her future role as a Jewish female, she is considered to be sexually a female from this age. Thus the laws restricting men and women from being alone together in the privacy of a locked room or house, yichud, apply to a girl of three. They only apply to a boy from the age of 9, the rationale being that from these ages the female and the male are sufficiently sexually mature to be the objects of sexual desire. In the language of the halakhah they are fit for sexual intercourse."
Page 128, chapter: The Ritual Lifetime: Childhood and Youth
The Jews: Their Religious Beliefs & Practices (1999 Edition)
Link may not work outside US: http://books.google.com/books?id=y3--5jTheDUC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.sussex-academic.co.uk/sa/titles/theology_religion/unterman.htm
Alan Unterman
http://pipl.com/directory/people/Alan/Unterman
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Babylonian Talmud Soncino Edition:
"Rather the practical difference is the case, for instance, where her husband had intercourse with her while she was under three years of age and found blood and when he had intercourse after the age of three he also found blood. If you grant that the features disappear and reappear again the blood might well be treated as that of virginity, but if you maintain that they cannot be destroyed until after the age of three years, that must be the blood of menstruation."
Niddah 45a
http://www.halakhah.com/niddah/niddah_45.html
it just Judaism? "Although the three-year-old girl does not undergo any ritual introduction to her future role as a Jewish female, she is considered to be sexually a female from this age. Thus the laws restricting men and women from being alone together in the privacy of a locked room or house, yichud, apply to a girl of three. They only apply to a boy from the age of 9, the rationale being that from these ages the female and the male are sufficiently sexually mature to be the objects of sexual desire. In the language of the halakhah they are fit for sexual intercourse."
Page 128, chapter: The Ritual Lifetime: Childhood and Youth
The Jews: Their Religious Beliefs & Practices (1999 Edition)
Link may not work outside US: http://books.google.com/books?id=y3--5jTheDUC&pg=PA128&lpg=PA128#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://www.sussex-academic.co.uk/sa/titles/theology_religion/unterman.htm
Alan Unterman
http://pipl.com/directory/people/Alan/Unterman
_________________
Babylonian Talmud Soncino Edition:
"Rather the practical difference is the case, for instance, where her husband had intercourse with her while she was under three years of age and found blood and when he had intercourse after the age of three he also found blood. If you grant that the features disappear and reappear again the blood might well be treated as that of virginity, but if you maintain that they cannot be destroyed until after the age of three years, that must be the blood of menstruation."
Niddah 45a
http://www.halakhah.com/niddah/niddah_45.html