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Laffy Kat

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7. In fact, it is so common it is not a pathology.

Reply to Ms. Toad (Reply #6)

Sun Jul 20, 2025, 05:32 PM

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It's considered normal in our culture. Sexual attraction to PRE-PUBESCENTS is pedophilia and is a psychiatric pathology. Attraction to 15-19-year-olds is ephebophilia and is not considered abnormal. IMO, it's not in the DSM as a pathology because men basically wrote the DSM.

I remember it happening to me a lot when I was a teen and it always creeped me out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephebophilia

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