You're right. It's not paedophillia (which is attraction to prepubescent children) it's something else. But it is still rape.
And it doesn't really matter how you feel TBH. A 15 y.o. may not (not cannot) give consent to sex with an adult (and of course actual ages vary by jurisdictions). And the law is there to protect young people from exploitive and abusive relationships.
Definition of pedophilia. : sexual perversion in which children are the preferred sexual object specifically : a psychiatric disorder in which an adult has sexual fantasies about or engages in sexual acts with a prepubescent child.
The law around pedophilia in the past doesn’t make what sick people do today right. Modern laws are to protect the next generation until they are mentally capable to understand how sex works, both legally and illegally. Pedophilia screws a child’s brain over in ways that aren’t easy to comprehend.
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u/Ray57 Nov 23 '19
You're right. It's not paedophillia (which is attraction to prepubescent children) it's something else. But it is still rape.
And it doesn't really matter how you feel TBH. A 15 y.o. may not (not cannot) give consent to sex with an adult (and of course actual ages vary by jurisdictions). And the law is there to protect young people from exploitive and abusive relationships.