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France bids to suspend Shein over childlike sex dolls (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

Pedophilia doesn't describe behaviour but attraction. If a rapist is not exlusively attracted to children then they're by definition not a pedophile. I'm well aware that in everyday language that word is used interchangeably with child molester but those terms are not synonymous.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago

    agree with all of that except the exclusive bit, i'm going to go with the wikipedia definition

    a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children

    which presents a problem for my point, doesn't it. if you are attracted to children, but not primarily, what are you? a semipaedo? if you only ever told one lie, it doesn't make you a liar. that is acceptable, even obvious to me. but you only fucked one kid so you're not a paedophile? i can't get my head round that

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