No I did not. I advocated pruning off the people who have beliefs that ultimately end up with pedophilia being accepted. I am NOT calling anyone transgender a pedophile. What I am saying instead is that TWAW goes in a direction that pedophiles, the predators, want.
Just for clarity here. Which definition do you use for pedophile?
Is it this one from the DSM-5?
https://www.theravive.com/therapedia/pedophilic-disorder-dsm--5-302.2-(f65.4)
Pedophilic Disorder is a DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, fifth edition), diagnosis assigned to adults ( defined as age 16 and up) who have sexual desire for prepubescent children...
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According to the DSM-5, there are three criterion, with six specifiers:
- An individual who has had arousing fantasies about, urges for, or behaviors with a prepubescent child or children.
- The individual has acted out these sexual desires, or is experiencing significant distress or difficulty as a result of these desires.
- The Individual is 16 years of age, and at least five years older than the child or children noted in Criterion A.
Where "pre-pubescent" then becomes an open question of definition, and can be wildly variable between children, and appears to have historically been that way as well:
https://theconversation.com/children-arent-starting-puberty-younger-medieval-skeletons-reveal-91095Puberty is divided into five clinical stages, with pre-puberty at stage one and onset (or thelarche) at stage two. Menarche (a girls first period) occurs at stage three. The age at which a child enters puberty (stage one) varies. Today, puberty onset occurs between the ages of ten and 14 in girls and 12 to 16 in boys, with some ethnic groups starting around a year earlier. The end of puberty, or full maturation, is reached by 13-17 years for girls, and 15-18 years for boys.
Or are we going for the more popular culture definition where a pedophile is simply someone who has sexual desires for "a child" where the definition of "child" becomes fuzzy? Epstein certainly seemed to be walking that line from what I'm seeing as a quick google is telling me the ages ranged from either 11 to 17 or 12 to 17 for the under-aged girls depending on which article I wanted to cite(I'm not bothering with any).
Much of the world seems to legally define the age of sexual consent as being 16 years old as of right now(even some states in the US do the same, although "sexual tourism" by crossing state lines is a federal matter and subject to federal law which sets the bar at 18. Although the UCMJ for the US Military still holds the age of consent to be 16). China has it set at 14. Japan's age of consent is set at 13, although they have provincial "corruption of a minor" laws which effectively raise it to 18 for most cases.
South Korea is set at 20.
If you ask some actuaries to compile statistics based on pregnancy outcomes, they'd likely advocate sexual age of consent should be closer to 25, which would bring it in line with Parent provided medical care for
dependent children under the ACA("Obamacare").
So can you clarify what you mean when you're talking about pedophiles? Are we talking sexually desiring 24 year olds as a middle-aged person? Are we talking about a College Freshman (aged 19 years) sexually desiring a 17 year old High School Senior? Or maybe it's that 16 year old boy being sexually attracted to that 14YO girl who just
completed puberty?
The best way to help ensure pedophilla becomes acceptable is to turn it into the acceptable-to-use term for
every kind of "they're too young for that" exclamation about young individuals having sex.
