Quote Originally Posted by Lemur View Post
The statement said that rather than paedophilia, it would "be more correct" to speak of ephebophilia, a homosexual attraction to adolescent males.
Quote Originally Posted by Viking View Post
In most cases, a 13 year old would not make pedophilia as far as my understanding of the word goes.
I would tend to agree with that as well. A teenager, a pubescent child is technically a sexually mature individual, biologically speaking. In the past, most cultures married girls after first blood. To be attracted to teenage females seems perfectly reasonable to me.

By the time a female is 15, there is little difference between what she and a 20-year old looks like. I found that out much to my shock as I now attend the Uni, and see no difference between the girls there and my female high school classmates, which have not skipped 12th grade like I did.

Now, a true paedophile by the psychological definition that I have read is one who takes a liking to pre-pubescent children, or closely similar to Nabokov's Humbert, which is regarded as deviant behaviour. The average male is not attracted to children of that age.