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If that is true, that is disgusting. But the practice of cherry picking religious texts and attributing all the anachronisms and barbarisms to every person in a religion is dumb and 2006 fedora tipping new atheist tier.The Talmud condones sexual intercourse with infants.
Public contempt for pedophilia is a product of the Enlightenment, secular thinking, and even early feminism. (In the 19th century feminists lobbied to raise the age of consent from absurdly low levels, like around 12, to 16 in Britain and the United States.)
Again my guess is that secular Jews, including psychologists and feminists, were overrepresented in the 19th century effort to stigmatize pedophilia. If true these Jews deserve a round of applause, and traditional Christian institutions (like the Catholic Church, with its pre-20th century age of consent having been 12) no small measure of contempt.