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The man in the pederastic relationship is seen nor only as a lover but as a mentor who helps the boy get started off right in life and imparts his own hard won wisdom from life experience to the naive child.
Moreover, the Japanese have never had many hangups about types of sex that the Christian West considers perverted, like homosexuality (found in many warrior cultures like feudal Japan and ancient Sparts) and even, to a smaller degree than in Afghanistan, pederastic relationships.

So I'm just wondering why we have an automatic reaction against pedophilia and why it's so strong of a reaction, along with wondering about the source of this reaction, whether it lies in human biology or in culture, so that if the former is the source, all societies should share this strong revulsion, while if the latter is the source, then cultures can vary in their views on pedophilia in its various forms, ranging from it being accepted for a 38 year old established man with a solid career marrying a 15 year old adolescent girl and taking care of her and continuing to raise her in a paternal manner, to pederastic relationships between elderly men and eight year old boys.

A final thought, it's only recently that in the West, people have thought it bad for an adult man to have a relationship, sometimes even a marriage, with a girl teenage girl. In fact just a hundred years ago in Western societies, it wasn't just normal for established men to get with teenage girls, but this was often considered a good thing because the girl was gaining access to a man who is able to support her not only financially but emotionally owing to his greater life experience that allowed him to act as like a new father, after the biological father gives his daughter to her husband at the wedding, for the adolescent girl. And of course girls themselves had no problem whatsoever romantically attaching to established men; even today, many teenage girls daydream about male authority figures