Diet plays an enormous role in the onset of puberty. A modern high-fat diet promotes earlier puberty. Sex hormones are derived from lipids.
The boys in the Gregorian through Renaissance periods typically attained puberty much later, and so were able to sing soprano in church choirs to a much later date than nowadays. In other words, there were no fast-food joints with greasy fries in the neighborhood.
Children from another culture, especially a more primitive one, or American children raised in a an environment using more healthful and ancient practices (which are often lower in total fat content), may experience puberty later.
(I am a nutritionist, and have served in ministry. I happen to know home-schooling households that prepare all their own meals, which are much lower in fat content.)
You both have children, fine. Extrapolating from one family to entire populations is just as hypothetical as what you, wardaddy, are criticizing.
Jeffrey Epstein had estates abroad, and by several accounts imported foreign girls, often from impoverished cultures. I personally assume that there were indeed actual pre-pubescent girls in his net; to assume the opposite is, I submit, less realistic.
Regardless, I repeat, you are focusing on what you regard as a vague or ambiguous use of one term, and losing sight of the greater concern: the serial sexual abuse of legal minors below the age of consent, whether resulting in pedophilia, hebephilia, or ephebophilia.
If you care so much about the specificity of terminology used in socio-political debate, then you are free to start your own blog to pursue that.
Oh really....if I disagree with what you consider the majority opinion here I should just shut up and do my own blog
You actually opined that Mr 2014?
Don’t try to tell me you’ve lurked since 1997 or lost your old 1998 password ....bullshite
I’ve got a newsflash for you.....the majority or let’s say loudestview here is on occasion ....wrong....it’s hard to tell the majority since JR doesn’t do pollls anymore
In fact very wrong.....as in being pro Bush amnesty in early to late 2000s...yes and you could get zotted for it...like I was
Supported Giuliani in 2007/08...and left when JR forbid it
Supported the now looking back in hindsight stupid Iraq war.....I was guilty of that one
And so forth
What I find most intriguing is how a handful here are utterly butthurt because I as of yet fail to see that Epstein is accused of what is clinically considered paedophilia rather than the sexual exploitation of underaged girls.
The two are not necessarily the same
For some reason my speaking up for an accurate definition of paedophilia really angers some posters
I learned long ago to resist the sound and fury here.
Although admittedly I too am part of it on occasion
I have detected maybe give the tone of todays politics and culture that posters here get personal much faster than say 15 years
If we use terms inaccurately like racism and anti semitism and paedophilia we dilute the impact
Now any man with an underage girl is a pedophile and the media trumpets that
Same media refuses to say that about homosexuals with underage twinks
This is all part of something larger at play and I’m resisting
I’ll think I’ll stick with it until I see more evidence that Epstein did indeed procure pre mense girls
Nite