I understand not every predatory sexual behavior towards young people is pedophilic, because young people vary in age and maturity.

However, this is such a strange and uncalled "technically correct" reply, why would we care enough to differentiate between hebephile or whatever it is called and pedophile. Nobody cares, it's still predatory and gross behavior no matter the name.

I get what you're saying, but popular usage is what it is at this point, and pointing out the wider range of accurate terminology is just going to get people accusing you of being a pedophile.

Men who were adults in the seventies and eighties (boomers for sure) had a strange fascination with teen girls.

That shit never went away I'm afraid. Ephebophilia isn't even a recognized condition like pedophilia because it's considered an adequate response to stimuli.

It has been my experience that those who go out of their way to illustrate this distinction are doing so defensively because they, themselves, don’t want to be “falsely labeled” as a pedophile.

Yet, either way, you’re a kiddie-fucker. No amount of “eeh, technically…” will ever change that.

Richard Stallman, is that you?

4chan is back fyi