Sometimes it helps to know what words actually mean:
Definitions of pederast:
* a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* Pederasty or paederasty refers to an erotic relationship, sexually expressed or not, between an adolescent boy and an adult male outside his immediate family.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pederast
* pederasty - sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner)
wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* pederasty - Practicing homosexuality, particularly a man with a boy.
www.reasoned.org/glossary.htm
* pederasty - or the Shotaro complex, generally refers to an attraction toward adolescent, or older, underage males.
www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Pedophilia
So you mean to say Letterman is a buggerer of boys?
How do you figure that? Personal experience?
Although my vocabulary far exceeds yours, I was mistaken to use the word “pederast.” I have heard others use that word to describe an adult who has a sexual interest in teenagers. An adult with a sexual interest in children is a pedophile. An adult with a sexual interest in teenagers is a pederast, or so I was led to believe by others. Since I am neither a pedophile, a pederast, or an adult with a sexual interest in teenagers, I wasn’t caught up on the vernacular. Apparently you were. Good for you!
The word I was looking for was hebephile or ephebephile. The terms for an adult who is sexually attracted to teenagers — to someone entering or in puberty, but who is not yet a full-grown adult.
Thank you for correcting me.
Interesting that you can’t come up with anything better than, “How do you figure that? Personal experience?” Considering I didn’t know what the correct word was, and you did, I think you ought to be asking yourself that question.
Now go back to your mommy’s basement and re-read what I wrote you in my original post, and cry into your pillow.
It’s just “some words.” Your original reply was juvenile. Your follow-up was childish. Grow up.