I agree, I mean project Nimbus is a pretty good example of events like this.

Also to add onto your comment, I'm reminded of an old 4chan argument that went viral on reddit because incels were trying to rationalize why the age of consent was set to 12 years old for women in spain at the time, and I am afraid of it being where the Epstein apologists may rush to, to even preserve a semblance or rationality.

Essentially, hebephilia is not the same thing as pedophilia, even the DSM-V makes the distinction using the term pedophilic disorder for the latter. For most of humanity (pre-modern (1945 and before) agrarian societies), hebephilia was common and seen as normal since marriages would be contracted and done the second a female starts puberty, mostly as a tool for economic gain, familial association and to secure the female as a patriarchal acquisition.

It is pretty much illegal everywhere because we now understand developmental capacity enough to know that a 12 year old should not engage in sexual acts with an adult and this is why I see it as just as evil as pedophilia, but to psychologists, it is simply a natural yet immoral facet of human sexuality.

Humans and therefore males are outcomes of evolution and because of this, they feel natural aversion to sexual acts done with an already pregnant female, a female past her reproductive age, or a female that is within their immediate family, because the first two will not lead to pregnancy and the last will lead to pathologies in the offspring. This is the same when it comes to pedophilia because it is often induced from trauma, statistically, it often happens because the pedophile themselves were a victim of pre-pubescent sexual acts. They then typically will engage back into it and it is understood as an act of traumatic transferance.