there are 2 lines that people go over as I see it....
the post-pubescent and the pre-pubescent.
just pubescent or pre-pubescent is so far removed from anything acceptable to ellict folks to want to string these bastards up by their yarbles.....
post pubescent....eg she was 16 going on 32 is pedophilia in america and rightly so...but we have to look at a few things....first of all...if a person is 21 and oogles, or dare I say date a 16 year old is this truly pedophila....One can say this is for the courts to decide...
Up until the mid 20th century in this country it was ok to date and marry someone who had surpased puberty...their age was determined by their apparent 'filling out' into their adult bodies.....some states have the age of consent many years younger than other states....
so yes the frog who wanted a bugger boy (or girl for that matter) of 10 years old in exchange for a new tire...should be publicly castrated.....but as the age of the young person increases there are grey areas.....
just my $0.02
It's not ok, never has been. "Alot of guys" is quite a generalization, but given the extreme emotions surrounding the topic, it easily understandable. You never notice the large majority of men that realize young girls act like and mimick older women, but they are still young, immature, little girls and it is not desirable or acceptable to view them as anything but. What is puzzling is that when a guy comments on a young girl why he isn't admonished by his peers more often. I have to call it out when I see it because it's irresponsible, disgusting and usually marks the guy as dim-wit who is socially immature and maladjusted.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that girls mature earlier than boys. There are a lot of good reasons for setting the age of consent at 18 in our culture, but that particular number is somewhat arbitrary.
A friend whose family came from Finland told me that not so long ago girls there married in their early teens and that a girl not married by 16 was considered an old maid.