Yes hebephilia (well, acting on it) is a crime in
some countries. In other countries it is partially or completely legal to act on it though. These are not third world countries. Germany, Italy, Japan, Spain, Uruguay, etc all have partially legalized hebephilic sexual relationships. I don't see any problem with having a lower age of consent like these countries do. I'm seriously not proposing we legalize the exploitation of adolescents at all, I don't think we should. I just think that if some 21 year old takes home a 15 year old who snuck into a bar and they get busted having sex, that he shouldn't get in trouble. If some guy in his twenties meets some 14 year old at a festival or something and they agree to have sex, I don't think there is anything wrong with that. These scenarios don't lead to problems in countries like Germany so long as there is seriously no exploitation involved, it's completely legal without exploitation being involved. I don't see why I'm a sick deviant pedophile who should be locked up forever or executed simply because I think Germany has the right idea on this, and really the responses from many of you are nothing short of barbaric and primitive, especially since probabilistically a lot of you actually are attracted to adolescents, and it makes me truly fucking sick to my stomach that you feel such a strong need to deny it and make it seem like you want to kill everyone who is very likely exactly like you fucking are.
This is reaction formation, but you don't need to form a reaction, just use some fucking rationality and be open minded for a minute and think about it, is it seriously such a fucking big deal if someone has sex when they are a little under 18 or 16 years old? It's really not a big deal at all, and it doesn't make you immoral or a bad person for thinking this, it makes you a bad person for pretending that people who have attraction to people these ages are sick monsters worthy of being executed though, you guys in the anglosphere are allowing fucking horrific things to happen to people who don't deserve it at all, just because you are fucking scared and having a moral panic over NOTHING.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reaction_formation
In psychoanalytic theory, reaction formation (German: Reaktionsbildung) is a defensive process (defense mechanism) in which emotions and impulses which are anxiety-producing or perceived to be unacceptable are mastered by exaggeration (hypertrophy) of the directly opposing tendency.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_panic
A moral panic is an intense feeling expressed in a population about an issue that appears to threaten the social order.[1] Moral panics are in essence controversies that involve arguments and social tension, and in which agreement is difficult because the matter at its centre is taboo.[2] The media are key players in the dissemination of moral indignation, even when they do not appear to be consciously engaged in crusading or muckraking. Simply reporting the facts can be enough to generate concern, anxiety or panic.[3]
You are not helping make the world a better place by freaking out, rejecting science, calling for death to everyone who you deem even the slightest bit impure, closing your fucking ears to anything, etc. You are making the world hell, not just for the people who irrationally hate, but for fucking everybody, even the people you claim to be trying to protect are being hurt by your state of moral panic.