Yeah I completely agree, I do think teenage girls would become very vulnerable. Schoolgirls being harassed in the street is nothing new unfortunately, even though they are clearly in school uniform and therefore clearly children.
I think though the specific paedophila in Afghanistan is a really strange phenomena. Because even if something isn’t punished finding children attractive in itself is quite odd. I can almost see how teenage girls would be attractive (to me they look like kids so not completely, but they are at least developing).
What I find strange is the demand for actual children. If you said to me theres a bunch of men who wanted to marry 14yr olds I’d be disgusted but not that surprised.
This is worthy of some sort of study imo.
The islamic justification the taliban use (and others who permit child marriage, iran, iraq, lebanon, parts of yemen) is often that if a child is big enough and can “bear” sex then it’s fine, she doesn’t have to have reached puberty. There is a book on jurisprudence by one of the Khomenis saying that getting sexual pleasure from an infant is fine as long as it’s non penetrative which means according to this particular ruling you can marry an infant. I need to go scrub my brain out. Obviously most muslims find this stuff gross, god knows feminists in many of these countries are constantly battling the weirdos in their own countries but it’s an uphill battle.
I don’t think we can blame the west for this, it’s not a new phenomenon unfortunately.