How Young Does A Victim Have To Be For A 32 Year Old To Be A Pedophile?

[SeattlePop]

Is 14 young enough?

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. As the song goes "Seventeen and a half is still jail bait"

Call it what you will, but guys spend hard time for that shit.

[left-of-center2012]

21. "Seventeen and a half"

The age of consent in most U.S. states is 16.

[The_Casual_Observer]

24. Yes I figured, but no place is 14. It's a old song:

"We try to tell you no
And let that young girl go
But you, you know it all
You have yourself a ball
And now it is too late
As you look from cell number 8
I tried to tell you mate
17 and a half
Is still jailbait
So tomorrow's today
For the trial of jailbait
And this you watch and see
The young girl will go free
And you'll get 1 to 3"

[madaboutharry]

2. Under the age of consent.

It has been 16 in most states for decades. In the eyes of the law, a 14 year old is a child.

[sunonmars]

3. Not in the Republican playbook, now how old was Spaceys accuser again, oh yeah 14?

So that must be nothing too then I take it

[NutmegYankee]

4. Normally the condition is defined by attraction to prepubescent children.

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14 is normally always past that. More like Hebephilia.



Edited to correct the term. I pulled it from memory and chose the wrong term. My mistake, sorry about that.

[NutmegYankee]

11. I was referring to puberty in girls.

Boys start later.

[NutmegYankee]

19. He's a holy roller - they are classically immoral.

Sure, they pretend to be moral, but it's just cover. I have no doubt he did it.

[left-of-center2012]

23. "Pederasty"

Pederasty:
sexual relations between two males,
especially when one of them is a minor.

[NutmegYankee]

30. For some reason I thought that was the name of relations with teenagers, but still underage.

It looks like it's only males in the old Greek sense. I am mistaken. I mixed up terms after reading about Ancient Greece and their particular customs.

The term I was looking for is Hebephilia.

[left-of-center2012]

33. I thought the same

Until I googled it.

Now you've got me 'googling' again:
"Hebephilia is the sexual preference for early adolescent children (those roughly ages 11 to 14)"

So now, what about a sexual preference for 14 to the legal age of consent?
What would that be called?



"Ephebophilia is the primary sexual interest in mid-to-late adolescents, generally ages 15 to 19."

[greeny2323]

5. I think it depends if you're a Republican n/t

[Blue_true]

6. 17 or younger.

I used to think that women married younger 50 or 100 years ago until I looked at an average marriage age back to the 1790's. The average marriage age has stayed above 20 years old for a long time.

[PoliticAverse]

7. Your question is a semantic one. A pedophile is someone who is attracted to prepubescent children.

See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedophilia

[Motley13]

9. I thought age of consent was 18, but I see most of the US is 16

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age_of_consent

[Dem2]

12. "15'll get you 20"

was the expression we used when we were 17,18...

[sarisataka]

13. If state law says 18

Then 17 years and 364 days

[onenote]

15. I believe this summarizes Alabama law today:

An individual who is 19 years old or older has sexual contact (short of intercourse) with someone who is younger than 16 but older than 12 has committed sexual abuse. If a person over the age of 16 has sex with a person under that age, they have committed second-degree rape, provided they are more than two years older than their partner.

I can't say for certain that this is what the law when Moore was 32 (38 years ago).

[emulatorloo]

16. Pedophiles are child molestors. Issue here is statutory rape/age of consent

consent. So your confusing some things.

Statutory rape is having sex without someone who is under the legal age of consent. The age Age differs from state to state.

[Ilsa]

17. Knuckle-dragging deplorable racist rat-bastards are

just fine with raping girls and boys stil in puberty.

14 years of age is too young. 16 is too young for a 32 year old. 18 is pushing it for a 32 year old, IMO. It's certainly inappropriate.

[left-of-center2012]

18. "Is 14 young enough?"

I think the word “Pedophile“ is used incorrectly for someone who is interested in someone who is 14.

From Psychology Today:
“Pedophilia is defined as the fantasy or act of sexual activity with children who are generally age 13 years or younger.”

It can still be illegal for an adult to have sex with someone younger than the age of consent,
but calling that person a 'pedophile' seems incorrect.

[msongs]

22. age of concent is a cultural construct, arbitrary in nature, and varies widely in human

societies across the planet. in the end it is what the law and code of a society says about people in that society

[AJT]

25. The victim would need to be pre-pubescent for pedophilia to apply.

[Break time]

26. It does depend

Alabama

§ 13A-6-61

First-degree rape for someone age 16 or older to have sexual intercourse with someone under age 12.

Life in prison or between 10 and 99 years

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§ 13A-6-62

Second-degree rape for someone age 16 or older to have sexual intercourse with someone between age 12 and 16, when the actor is at least two years older.

Two to 20 years in prison

[Mr. Ected]

27. How Young Does A Victim Have To Be For A U.S. Senator To Be A Pedophile?

This guy isn't your garden-variety pedophile. He is on the verge of seizing power in Washington, D.C., over all of us.

[enki23]

28. He's not a pedophile. He's a child molester

.

[Codeine]

29. Evidently it depends on how "romantically"

the adult in question behaves.

Also, bonus points if you spawn a Messiah, I guess.

[pnwmom]

31. Technically, the term pedophile refers to preferring pre-adolescent children.

So it wouldn't apply to a 14 year old.

But the term child-molester would, because she was a child and he molested her.

[SoCalDem]

32. Depends on state laws

Most states are 16...

It should be a two-fold answer.. the DIFFERENCE in ages is as important (to me)..

a 17 yr old girl who is "trying on her adult status" should NOT be "dating" someone significantly older than she is..

this is why I was so opposed to the way school districts have changed post-elementary schools. It used to be k-6..junior high (7 8 & 9) and then high school 10 11 & 12..

12 yr olds exited elementary and in those awkward years, contended with kids very near their own developmental experiences..of course back then NO ONE "dated" in junior high..

Now they start high school at 9th grade...some 9th graders are very young compared to seniors...

CNN recently had a special about a young guy (a senior) who sexted a 15 year old and ended up on the list (possibly for the rest of his life)

I am so glad our kids are grownups.. It must be frightening to have teens these days..

[GulfCoast66]

34. First you have to understand Mary and Joseph...

Or some shit like that