QUOTE(Michaeldsuarez @ Thu 8th March 2012, 1:55am)
Niabot believes that having sex with teenagers isn't pedophilia.
Niabot is technically correct, at least according to a common scholarly definition which defines pedophilia as sexual interest in prepubescent children (i.e. < 13 years of age).
Of course the first Google link for pedophilia that tells you that is ... Wikipedia. So I thought I had better double-check, which led to me to
this paper, which – besides backing the Wikipedia article up on the age thing – contains the following passage in its definition of pedophilia:
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Generally, pedophiles do not use force to have children engage in these activities but instead rely on various forms of psychic manipulation and desensitization (eg, progression from innocuous touching to inappropriate touching, showing pornography to children). When confronted about engaging in such activities, pedophiles commonly justify and minimize their actions by stating that the acts "had educational value".
A US Department of Justice manual for law enforcement officers identifies 5 common psychological defense patterns in pedophiles: (1) denial (eg, "Is it wrong to give a child a hug?), (2) minimization ("It only happened once"), (3) justification (eg, "I am a boy lover, not a child molester"), (4) fabrication (activities were research for a scholarly project), and (5) attack (character attacks on child, prosecutors, or police, as well as potential for physical violence).
Some of that sounded eerily familar.
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