Pedophile is a word that used to have specific meaning as in one who had sex with prepubescent children
I’m unaware that Epstein has been accused of that but rather of sex and coercion for sex with underaged girls
Do journalists simply not know this or do they not care
A lot Freepers also misuse the word
Perhaps we’ve entered an era with raised legal age for sexual consent where the new expanded use of the word will become the new definition
Any man or woman of legal age who has sex with anyone under 18
Pedophile is a word that used to have specific meaning as in one who had sex with prepubescent children.
Huh, there have been 12 year victims that came forward. Also, plenty of 13 year old victims. Which meet the prepubescent definition. Confused.
You are focusing on one tree, instead of the forest.
In many decades of trafficking, involving reputedly many hundreds of children, girls apparently for him, but boys presumably for his clients, do you really imagine that every single girl or boy had experienced puberty? The extant accusers are a fraction of a fraction of the potential number of victims.
If he was really running a business catering to the perverted desires of the wealthy and powerful, that almost certainly included literal pedophiles, whether Epstein himself followed that depraved suit or not.
We have a categorical legal age for puberty, as for consent, because objective, not subjective, criteria are necessary, but biologically, a girl who has not had her first menses has not undergone puberty, and some experience that later: The legal age is essentially a normative generalization.
It has been made clear that he only wanted the young, and victims eventually aged out in his perverse estimation.
If I wanted to do so, I could critique the grammar, syntax, and spelling of nearly any posting by nearly any poster on this site. I score in the top half of the top one percentile in Standard English. Yes, I know the word, ephebophile.
I prefer to deal with the larger issue, which is the network of exploitation and slavery of vulnerable children, whether pre- or post-pubescent.