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To: LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget

Not staing it’s ok, but she is right...look up ephebophilia

Probably pretty mcu the norm for that bunch for who know how long


12 posted on 11/19/2019 5:57:45 AM PST by Manuel OKelley
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To: Manuel OKelley
I'm an educated man of letters, and I had never heard of that. That said, we're splitting hairs on the subject. Ephebophilia ranges to age 19. According to wiki, age of consent in America ranges from 16 to 18.
17 posted on 11/19/2019 6:23:36 AM PST by LouAvul
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To: Manuel OKelley

Definitions


The word pedophilia comes from the Greek παῖς, παιδός (paîs, paidós), meaning "child", and φιλία (philía), "friendly love" or "friendship".[20] Pedophilia is used for individuals with a primary or exclusive sexual interest in prepubescent children aged 13 or younger.[4][5] Infantophilia is a sub-type of pedophilia; it is used to refer to a sexual preference for children under the age of 5 (especially infants and toddlers).[21][10] This is sometimes referred to as nepiophilia (from the Greekνήπιος (népios) meaning "infant" or "child," which in turn derives from "ne-" and "epos" meaning "not speaking"), though this term is rarely used in academic sources.[22][23] Hebephilia is defined as individuals with a primary or exclusive sexual interest in 11- to 14-year-old pubescents.[24] The DSM-5 does not list hebephilia among the diagnoses; while evidence suggests that hebephilia is separate from pedophilia, the ICD-10 includes early pubertal age (an aspect of hebephilia) in its pedophilia definition, covering the physical development overlap between the two philias.[25] In addition to hebephilia, some clinicians have proposed other categories that are somewhat or completely distinguished from pedophilia; these include pedohebephilia (a combination of pedophilia and hebephilia) and ephebophilia (though ephebophilia is not considered pathological).[26][27]

 

 

24 posted on 11/19/2019 6:42:24 AM PST by Bratch (IF YOU HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT CITIZENS, YOU ARE GOING TO HAVE SELFISH IGNORANT LEADERS-George Carlin)
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To: Manuel OKelley; marktwain

You are correct. It is an innate biological impulse to be attracted to sexually mature adolescents - it leads to children and survival. Was a boy or a man supposed to look at a developed 15 y.o. and say, hmm, three more years?

That is not to say it is always moral to act on the attraction -that depends on time and circumstances - or that prostituting a minor ever is, but the attraction is normal.


25 posted on 11/19/2019 6:47:20 AM PST by heartwood (Someone has to play devil's advocate.)
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