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To: WTFOVR
And there is a name for having a sexual interest in adolescent girls, but I do not recall the word at the moment.

I believe the word is ephebophilia. However, it strikes me as a sort of made-up condition. Either a female is of child-bearing age (and appears so) and will therefore be attractive to a male, or she is not and we have pedophilia. Marrying girls off while they were teenagers, even to men much older, was commonplace up until rather recently in the USA and elsewhere. If Clinton boned some girls under 18, (or under whatever age is legal where he was) but fully sexually developed, then he may be guilty of statutory rape, but let's not invent more psychological conditions to attack people with (e.g. homophobia, islamophobia, edtc.)
88 posted on 01/08/2016 5:44:33 PM PST by fr_freak
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To: fr_freak
I believe the word is ephebophilia. However, it strikes me as a sort of made-up condition. Either a female is of child-bearing age (and appears so) and will therefore be attractive to a male, or she is not and we have pedophilia. Marrying girls off while they were teenagers, even to men much older, was commonplace up until rather recently in the USA and elsewhere.

In olden days, it was common to have girls getting married off not long after puberty. Meanwhile, the husband had to be old enough to support a family. The Virgin Mary was most likely between 12 and 14 when she married Joseph.

100 posted on 01/09/2016 8:34:57 AM PST by PapaBear3625 (Big government is attractive to those who think that THEY will be in control of it.)
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