I mean, you can verify this shit if you want to. Pedophilia is considered a proper diagnosis in any case where a person over 16 has sex with a minor 13 or under and I believe 4 years younger than the subject. In the 1850's the age of consent in Australia was 10. and didn't get raised to the reasonable age of 14 until 1882. I have no idea the average age of wives in 1850's Australia , but I imagine 12 and 13 year old wives were not rare by any means. Here is a citation for 13 and 14 year old wives being common in 18th century America http://www.iroquoisdemocracy.pdx.edu/html/colonialwoman.htm I can actually find many citations in any direction in regard to historic marriage of those 12-13, ranging from "it happened rather uncommonly" all the way to "it happened all the damn time". prior to the 16th century: that is the best I am going to do for right now, it shows citation for marriage to 13 year olds (pedophilia today) being common in 18th century America, and child brides 12 and 13 as being a common practice found everywhere in the world prior to the 16th century. The age of consent laws didn't make what today can be diagonsed as pedophilia illegal in Australia until the very end of the 19th century, but I don't know how widespread it was practiced at that point in time. I can find several citations for relatively high average ages of marriage in the 19th and 18th century European countries, but with legal marriage to those 12 and older practiced uncommonly. I can also find some citations that go against this and claim that child brides were more common during these periods. So yeah the more modern you get the less widespread pedophilic practices were, with a sharp drop off in the 16th century but not totally extinguished and made illegal until the mid to late 19th century, with possible normality/popularity maintained into at least the mid 18th century according to some sources.