Puberty now vs Puberty past

[Clay City]

My question is was Puberty different for our parents.

My mother made the comment after she walked by the bathroom just as I open the door to come out I was nude still drying off (I also masturbated before I got out of tube) and forgot i still had an erection. As mom turned her head she said" why do kids have such big privates these days, girls with big boobs and boys with such long dicks. " In my day we didnt fully develop until at least 16-17.

So are we some type of generation change.

[ska8er]

I guess our growth process advances
faster and each generation gets stronger.
Could b due to a lot of things. Food we eat
and medicine-environment-IDK

[JonnyH]

I guess this like an "evolution" of generations.

[jamie_n5]

I don't know if things are much different than before. It could very well be but I have never seen or heard of any studies on that subject.

[Maxbreak]

Yeah the average age has come down over the past 100 years. I've done a google search and there are a few reports and theories on it

[justa16yearoldaussie]

I guess it varies for everyone, maybe your mother just isn't used to seeing young boys with big dicks?

[Clay City]

She always fuses about what's in the food saying its what's causing kids to develop so early

[Birds18]

She always fuses about what's in the food saying its what's causing kids to develop so early


So how old are you?
And what age did you start developing?

[pauly]

If the age of puberty keeps coming down, logically we'll soon be able to be grandfathers by the time we're 20.

And yet, life keeps getting longer. So there could be six or seven generations of a family alive all at once. I won't think about this too much more; it's getting scary! :confused:

[Hermes]

I don't know if things are much different than before. It could very well be but I have never seen or heard of any studies on that subject.

I think it has been studied but the studies seem to focus on girls - certainly the reports I have seen tended to concentrate on girls, though how seriously scientific they are is hard to say. Probably concentrating on girls is because they have an event, menarche (first period) that can be used as a measure. Even though boys have an equivalent, sperrmarche (first ejaculation), that is something boys are better able to keep to themselves.

If the age of puberty keeps coming down, logically we'll soon be able to be grandfathers by the time we're 20.

And yet, life keeps getting longer. So there could be six or seven generations of a family alive all at once. I won't think about this too much more; it's getting scary! :confused:

If people had children as soon as they were biologically able to that would be true but the trend is for people to start families later than they used to. In my great grandfather's generation people used to leave school at 14 and would have been out at work for a couple of years before they were able to marry at 16 so late teens would have been a common time to have a first child. These days people are often in education into their twenties and then it is going to take them a while to get established.

But you're right that longer lives open up the possibility of more generations alive at the same time. Great grandparents will be common place and even Great, Great grandparents no all that rare.

[Clay City]

So how old are you?
And what age did you start developing?

13. I started to notice at 11.

[Birds18]

Lucky
I turn 14 in may. I just started getting a few hairs recently

[MasonBA]

I read there could be several reasons why development starts earlier. Better nutrition is one reason I guess

[Clay City]

Lucky
I turn 14 in may. I just started getting a few hairs recently

I have a full bush down there.

[Birds18]

I have a full bush down there.


When do you turn 14?

[Maxbreak]

She always fuses about what's in the food saying its what's causing kids to develop so early

I read there could be several reasons why development starts earlier. Better nutrition is one reason I guess

I think weight in general does come into it, even obesity. I am "well rounded" and think it is one of the reasons why I hit puberty at 10

[jamie_n5]

I hear that the youngest mother to give birth was only 7 years old.

[Diable rouge]

As far as I know my parents started puberty at about the current average age. So, no difference.

However, there are certainly differences with people who lived before the industrial revolution, in the Middle Ages or the Roman era. Different food, different ways of life, different medicine, etc.

[Codeblue]

There are varied reports on growth.... you have the additives in food and such now days.....but have to consider also....150 years ago people only went to school till the 8th grade and then went out to work to help support their family or started their own families. My grandparents talk of their parents and grandparents doing that.

[Matt 04]

Articles i have read said better nutrition, particularly school lunches and more fruits and vegetables, has resulted in earlier puberty development.