I’ve got five kids I’m pretty familiar when puberty usually starts
Around 11-12 these days
I’m unaware any of the charges involved girls who were pre mense
But i have heard the innuendo
We dilute all salacious and pejorative labels now with less than former qualifications
Racism
Anti semitism
Sexism
And now pedophile
I promise you ask the average freeper and they will ascertain underaged girls is by definition pedophilia now
It seems that way in how the word is tossed around so easily now
Pedolphila to me is a man or woman with pre puberty children
Subway sandwich boy or Paula Poundstone
Pedophiles
Epstein I’m not sure
Guilty of Illegal underaged girls.....definitely
Is it social media that creates these looser definitions
I say this all the time here and it’s lost on many
Conservatism is about empirical observation...truths we see which we can’t deny....tempered by a God given morality and dealt with through reason
Sort of Burke meets Socrates and Jesus
Many here just like the sound and fury
I think more so today than ever in my 20 years here
I don’t think Epstein killed himself.....that’s a logical conclusion
I’ve got five kids I’m pretty familiar when puberty usually starts.
Anecdotal. The law says, “The age in boys after fourteen years until full age, and in girls after twelve years until full age.”
So, if he did recruit 12 years, he by definition is a pedophile.
After hearing that a murderous muscle bound freak was his cell mate and moved hours before his death. I think the murderous ex-cop delivered a message. Kill yourself or suffer a life of rape and beatings.
This is actually more plausible than most theories.
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.