http://www.equip.org/article/warren-...s-from-prison/


"Whereas about a third of Smith’s wives were teens as young as fourteen, a total of twenty-seven wives married by Jeffs were under the age of seventeen. According to LDS researcher Todd Compton, “sexual attraction was an important part of the motivation for Smith’s polygamy”;2 the same could be said for Jeffs as well."


The footnote "In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1997), 11."