re: #44 SanFranciscoZionist

Ephebophilia is just as creepy, in many ways, as pedophilia. The power imbalance is still obviously there, and the abuse of someone who is just sexually emerging is no less harmful than the abuse of someone pre-pubescent.

You won’t find survivors of sexual abuse telling each other, “Oh, you got raped by a priest when you were fifteen? Pshaw, that’s not pedophilia, you were sexually mature: that’s homosexuality!”

It’s heartless as hell. I don’t see how anyone making that argument can sleep at night.