Tag: Legal Age of Marriage

  • Persephone and Hades : A Marriage Made in Hell?

    A strange shift is occurring within the myth of Persephone and Hades: the young people have gotten hold of it, and they’re making it wholesome. This metamorphosis occurred to me recently as I was scrolling through my Instagram, and a page I follow (@lit.memery – I am who I am) posted the following: And I’ve…

  • Raising the Legal Age of Marriage – Alex Reflects

    “But Mum, I love him!” My sister proclaimed. She was older than me, probably just turned sixteen, and was deeply in love with her first boyfriend (who was her own age and, if memory serves, a sweetheart. He gave me my first copy of The Smashing Pumpkins, though, so I’m aware that I might be…