There's a difference between a 15-year-old and a 5-year-old, you know?

"There really is, one is annoying and one is hot". -Trump, probably

Megan Kelly has a 15 year old daughter, someone should call CPS and look into this poor kid if her mom thinks a grown man grooming her isnt a bad thing

Why? It's different both legally and clinically. Almost all states increase the severity of the crime for younger victims, usually choosing the delineating age around 12 or 13.

Yeah, but it's impossible to explain without sounding like a pedophile....

TIL hebophile and ephebophile, two words I didn’t want to know existed.

I really wish I lived in a world where psychiatrists could spend time inventing terms for people who prefer rogue-likes versus people who prefer rogue-lites instead of this shit.

I learned about hebophilia yesterday and today I started wondering if I'm supposed to be pronouncing ephebophilia as "ep-hebophilia" or was i right saying "ef-ebophilia"

funny that QAnon stuff circled around Dems having pedo-leanings and that was an OUTRAGE yet now it turns out to be OK, Humane even... wtf? Their morals exist only to stick it to anyone opposing them and they evaporate the second one of their own is caught doing exact thing

Treating girls as property is a conservative value.

But they're still probably gonna push to prosecute lgbtq people as pedophiles. They should at least have to pretend to be consistent.

End up? They were already there since at least almost a decade ago.

Supporters defend Roy Moore: “Mary was a teenager and Joseph was an adult carpenter” | Vox - https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2017/11/9/16630464/supporters-defend-roy-moore-mary-joseph

Yes, it's technically Hebephilia or Ephebophilia. That doesn't change the level of disdain.

Apparently for his sycophant followers. Absolutely insane.

Reminds me of all the disgusting turds in the courts who went, "Aw it was just a little rape."

No, it's that he was a hebephile instead of a pedophile.

There is a distinction between the two, they are both still fucking bad.

It's like distinguishing between burglary and robbery. Maybe it makes a difference in the exact length of their sentence but they're still both serious crimes

Technically, pedophilia is considered a mental disorder. it's listed in the DSM-V. Pedophiles could be considered mentally ill.

Hebophilia and ephebophilia aren't illnesses. They are crimes.

He's quite the vintage. I hear 79 cock is magical. It dissapears!

Holy shit this is an underrated comment .

Bravo sir.

*rapist

I'm pretty sure they named the pedo region of Epstein island after him

well a pedophile goes for prepubescent children….

Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19

so like, still a sex predator for underage girls….

In most US states that would not be illegal.

From the people who brought you pizzagate.

You gotta remember, ALL of the chips are on this guy, the base hates most of the policy and could barely name any of the cabinet, they're just there for the figurehead.

This talking point is very popular among the right wing libertarian guys who are so offputting they cannot date their peers.

It’s also popular among Christian fascist theocrats who want to be able to date and marry children.

It is spreading for a reason though. There certainly is a difference between raping an 8 year old and a 16 year old. And medically it is defined as "sexual interest in prepubescent children." https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19327034/ People have started slinging the term even at guys dating 20 something year old women just because they are 50 or 60. In short, the term has been made into a dog whistle and used were it doesn't apply because it carries more negative connotations than terms like statutory rape, sexual assualt of a minor, sex trafficking.

Frankly, I think the term has been cheapened by this misuse. Now when people here someone is a pedo, instead of immediate revulsion, they have to ask, "what kind of pedo". It shouldn't be that way. All of the phrases should be bad enough that we don't need to exaggerate. So it is more the acceptance that statutory rape is ok that is the source of the problem.

That said, the motives for this talking head to say what she said are purely political. Her words aren't worth spit.

WOW....just..........WOOOOWWWWWW

But he liked the very young teen types that could pass for even younger than they were, but would look legal to a passerby."

How does this make any sense at all? How does one "pass as even younger" but still somehow "look legal to passersby"? Those are directly conflicting concepts.

Sometimes you got to wonder if hate Muhammed just because want to be like Muhammed so bad

I feel like this is how Trump thinks he sounds. Semi-cogent, explaining full thoughts for rhe most part. The reality is so much more stilted and involves vertical leaps between topic layers with little warning and almost no rhetorical device.

This was great but at "beautiful women" he would have had a brain fart and started talking about Sydney Sweeney and how the left hates her for being beautiful. "The left hates lots of beautiful women because beautiful women all love me. They all love my big beautiful bills..." et al.