[ WP ] Due to humans engaging in sexual activities at earlier and earlier ages , they have evolved to hit puberty at a much younger age .

I think this prompt is kind of backwards, but it spawned a bit of writing so I decided to put it here as opposed to a PM, so here goes. Because life expectancy has grown exponentially within the last two centuries, the idea that people should wait to reproduce has become a new concept. Back during the Industrial Revolution, if you made it to forty years old it was a rarity. Therefor, people were getting married and having kids in their early teens. It was the only way to push the species forward. You can find pictures of children smoking cigarettes and looking well like adults at the ages of something like eight to eleven. We have not been living to the ripe old age of eighty for very long and the idea that teenagers should wait until their twenties to have sex is fighting thousands of years of instinct to reproduce at an early age. So, in conclusion, if this continues, we will actually evolve to hit puberty later in life. Now that I type that out, it seems to be the case, does it not? Back in the 80s, you would make your career and be climbing the corporate ladder by thirty years of age, but now we see more and more males in their mid to late 20s still sitting at home, single, playing video games and generally goofing off. I'm not knocking it, I'm one of them. Now in my early thirties I am finally figuring out what I want to do in life and pursuing it as I establish a family life and do `` adult things''. Just an observation.
