Why are you people surprised?
the whole concept of pedophilia being deviant and damaging behavior is currently mostly an american idea. Most of the world does not think there is anything wrong with such behavior. Just as most of the world does not believe there is anything wrong with multiple wives, slavery, prostitution, concubines, mistresses, extortion, blood feuds, nepotism, tyranny, dictatorships, fascism, communism, wife beating, rape, torture, etc.
There is a very unique sequence of empires and cultures and events that led up to the american set of values. The sequence went like this:
abraham
isaac
joseph
moses
hebrew bible
greek democracy
greek empire
greek bible
roman republic
roman empire
jesus
st peter
latin bible
viking conquest
muslim conquest
crusades
spanish inquisition
spanish empire
martin luther
german civil war
german bible
english bible
english civil war
british empire
puritans, calvinists, quakers, shakers
american war of independence
american constitution and democratic republic government
american civil war
the whole concept of pedophilia being deviant and damaging behavior is currently mostly an american idea. Most of the world does not think there is anything wrong with such behavior. Just as most of the world does not believe there is anything wrong with multiple wives, slavery, prostitution, concubines, mistresses, extortion, blood feuds, nepotism, tyranny, dictatorships, fascism, communism, wife beating, rape, torture, etc.
This is not an American construct. And it's not an idea. It's real and devastating to the children.
Your mentality diminishes the damage done to the children.