Legal age limit for dating

Christianity made it clear to its followers that sexual relations outside marriage was forbidden, and children were commonly held responsible, and punished, for submitting to sexual acts with an adult. The accepted age of marriage at the time was 12 years. This Westminster 1 statute made it a crime to “ravish” a maiden younger than the age of marriage, with or without her consent. The first written age of consent law found by historians comes from England in 1275.