Edited sentence: Changes in the reason for marriage from improving social status to love, along with anti-child sex advocacy during the industrial revolution led to laws preventing this in most places.Historically, in Western societies, sex was considered a privilege of marriage, and marriage was allowed as long as there was parental consent.It was fairly common for adolescent and in some cases prepubescent females to marry adult men, and it is hard to believe that sexual activity was absent in all cases.The reason for this was because these  societies revered fertility and motherhood and did not attempt to control sex.Therefore, direct  observation is no longer possible, and the only references are older observations made before widespread Western influence.Western  influence and domination has eroded their open views about sex