I've said this before and I'll say it again: pedophilia is an attraction to prepubescent children.
Some of the cases she talks about here are not incidents of pedophilia but rather hebephilia or ephebophilia (an attraction to children on the cusp of/in the midst of puberty and attraction to children just out of puberty). In some cases, it's even teleiophilia (attraction to sexually mature children - ie: 16/17 year olds).
It actually makes biological sense to be an ephebophile or a teleiophile. You would want to have the youngest sexually mature mate possible in order to ensure the success of your genes. There is no biological justification for pedophilia.
The point I'm trying to make is that there's a huge difference between having sex with a 4 year old and a 17 year old. Should we really be lumping these two groups of people together? Neither one of them is right by any societal standards, but I'd argue that one of them at least has a biological and evolutionary basis.
Edit: And yes, I know that she's not making an argument about age - but it's bound to come up in discussion and it's a very important distinction to recognize the difference between a true mental illness and not realizing that she was actually 17 instead of 18. The media (news especially) is constantly mislabeling these people.
imo, he's not wrong in the sense that there should be different punishments, in terms of how young the victim is, but we shouldn't stop calling the ephebophiles pedohiles, we should just start calling the pedophiles who diddle six year olds super pedophiles or something
I mostly agree with what you are saying, but anybody who uses the phrase "sexually mature children" unironically creeps me out just a bit. Also justifying his attraction to 15 year old girls with the bunkum about "healthy offspring" (spoiler: teenage pregnancies tend to have more complications).
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n/a Ultrashitpost 2017-02-05
More pederastrian than thou
n/a going_for_a_wank 2017-02-05
I've said this before and I'll say it again: pedophilia is an attraction to prepubescent children.
Some of the cases she talks about here are not incidents of pedophilia but rather hebephilia or ephebophilia (an attraction to children on the cusp of/in the midst of puberty and attraction to children just out of puberty). In some cases, it's even teleiophilia (attraction to sexually mature children - ie: 16/17 year olds).
It actually makes biological sense to be an ephebophile or a teleiophile. You would want to have the youngest sexually mature mate possible in order to ensure the success of your genes. There is no biological justification for pedophilia.
The point I'm trying to make is that there's a huge difference between having sex with a 4 year old and a 17 year old. Should we really be lumping these two groups of people together? Neither one of them is right by any societal standards, but I'd argue that one of them at least has a biological and evolutionary basis.
Edit: And yes, I know that she's not making an argument about age - but it's bound to come up in discussion and it's a very important distinction to recognize the difference between a true mental illness and not realizing that she was actually 17 instead of 18. The media (news especially) is constantly mislabeling these people.
n/a Ardvarkeating101 2017-02-05
I want to believe this is a copypasta but I'm too scared to google it
n/a going_for_a_wank 2017-02-05
I think that the original poster was 100% serious
n/a Ardvarkeating101 2017-02-05
Well now I feel dirty just clicking that link
n/a Nechaev 2017-02-05
You're posting in r/drama and you feel "dirty" for clcking on link to an r/videos comment?
I think you might be lost.
n/a Akilroth234 2017-02-05
imo, he's not wrong in the sense that there should be different punishments, in terms of how young the victim is, but we shouldn't stop calling the ephebophiles pedohiles, we should just start calling the pedophiles who diddle six year olds super pedophiles or something
n/a going_for_a_wank 2017-02-05
I mostly agree with what you are saying, but anybody who uses the phrase "sexually mature children" unironically creeps me out just a bit. Also justifying his attraction to 15 year old girls with the bunkum about "healthy offspring" (spoiler: teenage pregnancies tend to have more complications).
n/a StrategicSarcasm 2017-02-05
Justifying your attraction in general is garbage. It's time for us to embrace our depravity.
n/a Lord_Tartarus 2017-02-05
Legal in the best countries.
n/a Ranilen 2017-02-05
Missing silhouettes of two midgets, a GMILF, and a donkey. Racists.
n/a captainpriapism 2017-02-05
also legally mandated emo faggot hair apparently
n/a JaseyLoans 2017-02-05
If thats the case, then Homosexuality has no biological function, so logically the left should be pushing for Pedosexuality any day now. :P