Judge Roy Moore Sued Sacha Baron Cohen for Defamation; It's About to Backfire

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37. Depends on what you think they're sub-categories of

They're not sub-categories of pedophilia if that's what you mean. Pedophilia is sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Hebephile for adolescents who have just started puberty, generally 11 to 14-years-old, and ephebophile is for mid to late adolescents from 15 to 19-years-old. Pedophilia has just become a catch-all word for attraction to young kids, where young can mean various things depending on the person. I've even heard interesting discussions about how we don't control who or what we are attracted to, pedophiles who never act on their desires because they realize the other party would not be consenting adults and any relationship would be traumatic are to be admired, but the line there would be too thin for the general public.

And after saying all that, perhaps some of them are sub-categories. According to Wikipedia: Pedophilia (alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children.[1][2] Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12,[3] criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.[4] A person must be at least 16 years old, and at least five years older than the prepubescent child, for the attraction to be diagnosed as pedophilia.

So amending what I was saying, Moore would want to fight to have himself classified as an ephebophile instead of a pedophile, assuming the trial was becoming a worst case scenario for him, since hebephile can overlap with pedophilia.

But then, I'm not any kind of mental health person, and I could be talking out my ass.

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