They did it again
That is why I said "literally". But you forget that, according to that archaic, male chauvinist set of mind, it's the men who do the "lying with", and females (women) "are laid". Unless they are Lilith-like devils LOL
In any case, if it were truly specifically meant "boys", they would not have used the general "masculine"... because that would imply, folliwing your own logic, that it would be implied that it was ok to lie with little girls or, at least, pubescent girls, as it was actually the case.
Do not sweat it, that part of the Bible is not about high morals as much as about whims who might have had some sense back in the place and era, like eating pork or circumcising, and got derailed when dealing with whatever "wasted" seminal material for procreation: that sort of morals are about the most materialistic aspects of life, they have nothing to do with good or evil morals on a higher, spiritual, god-related level.
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They did it again
That is why I said "literally". But you forget that, according to that archaic, male chauvinist set of mind, it's the men who do the "lying with", and females (women) "are laid". Unless they are Lilith-like devils LOL
In any case, if it were truly specifically meant "boys", they would not have used the general "masculine"... because that would imply, folliwing your own logic, that it would be implied that it was ok to lie with little girls or, at least, pubescent girls, as it was actually the case.
Do not sweat it, that part of the Bible is not about high morals as much as about whims who might have had some sense back in the place and era, like eating pork or circumcising, and got derailed when dealing with whatever "wasted" seminal material for procreation: that sort of morals are about the most materialistic aspects of life, they have nothing to do with good or evil morals on a higher, spiritual, god-related level.