Pedophilia; I can't accept it.

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I have touched on this in another thread, and I figure I will give it another go.

I do believe that pedophilia is wrong. No doubt about it. What I consider pedophilia, however, has nothing to do with a sixteen year old having sex with an adult. Pedophilia is adult men and woman, over the age of eighteen, who sexually molest prepubescent children. Prepubescent children obviously cannot understand sex to the point of giving proper consent to engage in sexual activities.

Post pubescent teenagers, however, mainly those between the age of fifteen and seventeen, are perfectly capable of understanding sex, its ramifications, and being able to consent. I wholeheartedly doubt that post pubescent teenagers are any more likely to be fooled into molestation than an eighteen year old that is considered a legal adult. Many teenagers engage in sex, whether with other teenagers around their own age or with adults the age of eighteen or thirty, and they have absolutely no problems later in life due to the decisions they made to consent to sex.