Quote:
Originally Posted by Mike Haven
“You are watching a late movie on TV with your neighbors’ 12-year-old daughter. You have your arm around her shoulders, and your fingers brush against her chest. You realize that her breasts have begun to develop…”
Wtf? Watching a late movie with a 12-year old? Arm around her shoulders? Fingers brush against her chest?
Bottle of Chateauneuf du Pape, perhaps, and the pungent aroma from the bong sitting on the hearth by the roaring log fire?
Has this guy not just pulled some random quote from from his favourite porn story?
Y’know, it might be just a bit unwise to put too much stock in this guy’s definitions. Just a thought.
LOL, the point being that there's a clinical difference between someone who is attracted to prepubescent children (what we typically mean when we say the word "pedophile") and someone attracted to post pubescent but still young (and under the statutory age of consent) girls (or boys).
Let's not forget that not that long ago in this country (within the last two centuries), and still in many parts of the world, an older man marrying a 13 year old girl wouldn't be considered all that unusual. At one point in time, once a child was physically capable of having children they were considered old enough to be the object of sexual desire and advances.
At any rate, due to age of consent laws and the now extended adolescence that we have, the lines between what is socially acceptable to want to sex and what we have historically wanted to sex are increasingly blurred. But people who acknowledge being attracted to "jail bait" 15 year olds are not pedophiles.