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To: rxsid

“He’s saying, quit clearly, that if a 13 year old is sexually mature, it’s not pedophilia (i.e. it’s OK) for older men to have a sexual relationship with them.”

By definition, it is not pedophilia.

However, it is statutory rape, and sexual maturity is not the guiding standard for statutory rape. The standard is emotional and intellectual maturity.

That is the flaw in his argument. Very often people reach sexual maturity long before they attain emotional or intellectual maturity. The fact that a teenage girl has sprouted T&A doesn’t mean she’s ready to take on a practiced seducer.


51 posted on 02/22/2017 11:39:40 AM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: dsc
it’s not pedophilia (i.e. it’s OK)

WTF?

In what demented mind could "not pedophilia" equal "it's ok?"

55 posted on 02/22/2017 11:52:18 AM PST by papertyger (The semantics define how we think.)
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To: dsc
“He’s saying, quit clearly, that if a 13 year old is sexually mature, it’s not pedophilia (i.e. it’s OK) for older men to have a sexual relationship with them.”

By definition, it is not pedophilia.

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He said it's ok for men to have sex with a 13 year old so long as that 13 year old was sexually mature.

As for the definition...depends on whose defining it.

pedophilia
noun, Psychiatry.
1. sexual desire in an adult for a child.
http://www.dictionary.com/browse/pedophilia

If you call it Pedophilia, Statutory Rape or illegrabenzen...it's wrong.

63 posted on 02/22/2017 12:28:00 PM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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