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Someone who is sexually attracted to teenagers is not a pedophile. Pedophiles are people who are attracted to children who have not yet gone through puberty and have no physical attributes of sexually mature person. A pedophile would not necessarily be attracted to a teenager who just looks like a younger adult, but not an actual child. 
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If you engage in acts with women who are underage, you will considered a sex offender. If found guilty you will register as a sex offender.[/quote]

Yes PP, that’s true. However, sex offender does not equal pedophile. Former prosecutor here who has prosecuted sex offenses committed by pedophiles against prepubescent children, and by nonpedophiles against postpubescent underage teenagers and adults.

I’m extensively trained in this area and I am therefore always deeply troubled by this habit of so many lay people to equate all sexual interest or activity with underage age of consent teens with pedophilia. It’s very troubling, especially if you consider that the legal age of consent from one state to another ranges from 16-18, so clearly many legislatures have grasped that sexually mature young females and males are not the same as their ten years younger counterparts. Also the psychology involved in pedophilia (a syndrome, not a crime - unless acted on) is such that most pedophiles struggle to muster sexual interest in postpubescent late teens or any age sexually mature women or men.

So please, words matter, their definitions matter, don’t conflate ephebophilia (sexual interest directed primarily at late teens) with pedophilia. Very different things.[/quote]

You really are obsessed with this. The thread is about Bill Gates divorce and affairs. [/quote]

I know right?  It's a bit strange.[/quote]

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