• fonix232@fedia.io
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    4 hours ago

    See, the distinction between a pedophile, hebephile and ephebophile exists for a good reason.

    But the thing is, the moment you start getting into those differences, it immediately makes you sound like a pedophile.

    • Bennyboybumberchums@lemmy.world
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      3 hours ago

      Only because online people are dumb as fuck. They cant process the nuance of basic arguments. They just want simple clickable buzzwords to like, share and subscribe. This is why we now have some of the dumbest cunts in the world claiming that 25 year old “children” cant consent…

      Rape of woman, rape of a teenager, rape of a child, rape of a baby. To put these under one umbrella term is fucking weird. Its like saying “Americans voted for Trump”. Its true, but its not accurate. And Im pretty fucking sure theres a lot of Americans would take issue with that statement.

      Everyone just needs to take a page out of the UK play book, and call him a fucking nonce!

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      4 hours ago

      One of the many reasons it’s impossible to have an honest and mature discussion on the topic. No one cares to actually be accurate with terminology just because it’s “icky”

      Now if only we could also get research funding on the topic that doesn’t have a billion strings attached to the researchers or the results being locked away forever because no one wants their name attached.

      Or the best one peer review being basically impossible on the topic.

      It’s such a huge problem.

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        2 hours ago

        This is not only wrong it’s extremely wrong.

        It’s a well documented sexual dysfunction with diagnosis codes and treatment methods (really mostly coping mechanisms and therapy) and everything.

        Not all people who are pedophiles rape children or consume CSM. Some people have the presence of mind to seek out help. Those people are people we can have an adult discussion about and if you want to be specific with definitions with them, fine. Be my guest.

        For the people who raped minors, or consumed CSM? Literally does not fucking matter what you call them. Any discussion on exactly the right word to use is a targeted distraction from the point. You’re either willfully and knowingly engaging in that distraction, or you’re ignorant of the harm some people are trying to cause by doing so.

        He’s a pedophile. Everybody that went to Epstein’s Island is a pedophile, rapist, child molester, whatever, or in the very best case complicit in those crimes.