>>24480608 (OP)A healthy normal male can be attracted to a 16-18 year old, simply at minimum on a PHYSICAL level. Because they’ve gone or are going through puberty and already have the pubescent, or post-pubescent, traits of a human woman attractive to heterosexual men and the like.
This is now very offensive to mention in polite society, but it’s a real phenomenon. The infamous word here is “ephebophilia”, which Redditors will say something like this in response to:
>ummm, the fact that you even know that word and are making the distinction means you’re a pedophile sweaty :^)Yes, I am going to use the word and make the distinction. There is a massive difference between even a 50-year-old man (or older) having a relationship with an 18-year-old young woman, and having one with a 9-year-old girl. The former can still be “gross”, “creepy”, “ew”, “icky”, but the latter is even more so, and on a whole different level. In fact, I think people are being outright immorally over-sanctimonious when they equate the two. They are actually trivializing and taking attention away from actually even more disgusting things like child rape.
Nabokov’s Lolita is talking about something beyond even this scenario of an 18y/o-50y/o sexual relationship, now either pedophilia or hebephilia at best (hebephilia = about while they’re going through puberty, pedophilia is before even that).
You can punch and smash and kick a wall nearby you as hard as you want about it, but I’ll always hold to this distinction.