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by valuearb 2211 days ago
If I find 14 year old girls willing to sleep naked in my bed, I’m going to get arrested. Apparently Gandhi never considered whether someone is old enough to consent to his “experiments”.
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I suspect at that point in Indian history people married at 13 in many cases.

This doesn’t make it right or wrong, but it is worth considering when these things happened.

These days he might just have spent a weekend in Vegas with five grand in cash, and seen what level he fell to!