mar 17, 2019 - Pedophilia in the Talmud

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The Talmud is very complicated, not every statement is a law, sometimes it is commentary or the opinion of a certain Rabbi, sometimes a stipulation or refutation, however, the quotes below should give you a good idea about Talmudic reasoning on certain issues.

The standard in the Talmud is that girls can be married and are ready for coitus at the age of three and so are captive slave girls, while boys may be sodomized without penalty between the ages of three and nine. Non-Jewish boys only defile the Jew during sex above the age of 9. Mothers who have sex with their eight-year-old sons are not rendered impure from the act, and girls below eleven years old are prohibited from using contraception during sex. Captive non-Jewish slave girls may be married to priests earlier than three-years-old and the Talmud says the warrior Joshua tested slave girls' virginity by inserting bottles of wine into them, though he was supposed to test them for "dropsy" instead.