764 shill said:
Ok so if someone is like 20 and fucks a 16 year old would that make them a pedo even though both of them are basically biological adults..?
I feel like saying something about this, so I will. What is a pedophile? A pedophile is someone who is lustfully or sexually attracted to children. What is a child? Child can be taken in two senses: in the strict sense as someone yet to reach the age of puberty, and in the broad sense as someone under the age of majority, or someone who is a minor. Similarly, pedophile can be taken in either the strict sense as someone attracted to prepubescent children, or in the broad sense as someone attracted to minors, and therefore a 20 year old who fornicates with a 16 year old is a pedophile. Now, there are three categories of pedophilia: pedophilia in the strict sense, pedophilia which is attraction to early pubescent children (hebephilia), and pedophilia which is attracted to older minors (ephebephilia). These are not equally bad, and they are not bad for the same reasons. Pedophilia in the strict sense is the worst, because prepubescent children are not really sexual beings, and is intrinsically sodomitical or at least very violent because children do not have functioning vaginas. Hebephilia is bad because children who are going through the process of puberty are still significantly physically immature and, in the case of women, childbirth is very dangerous at that age. Ephebephilia is not bad because older minors are physically immature, and although you can usually tell when someone is a minor, there's not a whole lot of physical difference between a typical 16 year old and a typical 20 year old, but because humans are not like dogs, we are rational creatures and we must act according to the rule of reason. The category of minor exists because a man is not immediately mentally mature upon reaching the age of puberty, and therefore certain protections must be given to minors because, basically, they are stupid, for example they cannot sign contracts. The category of minor is not something which exists simply from human nature as such, but is rather created by the force of reason, and is a very real category determined by our laws which now set the age of majority at 18. A person who statutorily rapes a minor is guilty of a sex crime against a minor, even if he was acting under the presumption that the minor was above the age because fornication is immoral, and therefore he has no excuse to not have made sure he was on the right side at least of the civil law before fornicating. If he had instead attempted to sign a contract with the minor, the contract would be void, but he would not be guilty of taking advantage of the minor because signing a contract is an indifferent act. To be clear, the fornication he committed is aggravated by the fact that it is statutory rape. Furthermore, if a man does not have sex with a minor, but simply has a sexual fetish for high schoolers, he does something immoral, and similarly a man who has a fetish for secretaries does something immoral. However, the man with a fetish for high schoolers does something worse, because high schoolers are, of their nature, unsuitable for marriage, and therefore it is similar in some way to sodomy. I hope that helps.