Ephebophilia is when an older adult is sexually attracted to post-pubescent teenagers or adolescents but still biologically adults—usually those in the age range 15–19. https://simple.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia

I believe that ephebophilia is not morally wrong as long as it’s between two consenting adults. For example if a 18 year woman wants to have sex with me a 26 year old man then I do not think it’s morally wrong because me and her are both consenting adults so what we are doing is completely harmless.

  • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldEnglish
    143·
    4 months ago

    Well, this just screams: “I want to fuck kids! WHY WONT YOU LET ME FUCK KIDS!”

    You may wanna twist a word in order to rationalize it, but it’s still fucking disgusting and wrong, because you’re ignoring the sexual power dynamics between the two people and how the younger person can easily been manipulated by the older person, because younger person simply is too young to understand them and will easily fall victim to the older person.

    gross

    • TrenGoblin@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      18·
      4 months ago

      But 18 and 19 year olds are not kids you idiot they’re both legally considered an adult in most parts of the world. Obviously I would never have sex with 16 and 17 year old woman because they’re both considered minors which makes it morally wrong for me to have sex with them because I’m an adult.

      • swim@slrpnk.netEnglish
        9·
        4 months ago

        Well, an assumed connection between legality and morality is perhaps part of the disconnect.

        Having sex with 16 and 17 year olds is not morally wrong *simply because they are legally considered minors and you an adult.

        Having sex with 16 and 17 year olds is considered morally wrong, by some, because the state of their mental maturity is often far below that of an adult even 5 years older. Consider the biological “growth” of the human brain; having not fully developed, their behavioral maturity follows suit. This means their ability to reason, their ability to act in their own best interest, is less than your own. At a certain level of disparity, this imbalance is usually considered “taking advantage” of someone. Asking them to do things they have less an ability to understand than yourself starts to look a lot like coercion.

        *ETA

      • EleventhHour@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        But 18 and 19 year olds are not kids you idiot they are both legally considered an adult in most parts of the world

        But you’re still ignoring the huge difference in power dynamic. Unless you want that, in which case I can’t see how you could call that moral.

        Obviously I would never have sex with 16 and 17 year old woman because they both considered minors which makes it morally wrong for me to have sex with them because I’m an adult.

        Since you still struggle with the morality of the sexual power dynamics of having sexual relationships with those too young to understand the concept, it’s clear that it’s not any sense of morality stopping you— it’s the legality.

        I have no doubt you’d fuck kids if you didn’t fear the legal consequences.

        So the question remains: why do you wanna fuck kids so bad, and why do you think fucking kids is moral?