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and you're the one clutching your pearls about an article accurately describing pedophilia, talking about tone-deafness.
There is nothing tone-deaf about pointing out that pedophilia is the sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children while there is nothing remarkable, deviant or abnormal about finding certain adolescents physically attractive. Throughout much of the Middle Ages and early modern period, it was perfectly normal and common for girls to get married at age 15 or 16. Do you seriously believe that all of our ancestors were pedos?
In modern society, girls go to school a lot longer and the coming of age is delayed by social factors, so that the social or psychological development of young people typically lags their biological development by several years. Age of consent constructions rightfully account for this fact, as do social conventions. That's why we frown upon people older than, say, 24 sleeping with people younger than 18, or people older than 19 sleeping with ones younger than 16 or so.
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so again, why is clinton in your opinion MORE likely to have had sex with underage girls multiple times? makes no logical sense at all, it's just you performing mental gymnastics for trump.
Because Clinton had a tendency to screw anything with a heartbeat while Trump had publicly fallen out with Epstein since some point in the early 2000s. He is also on the record mocking Epstein's preference for girls "on the very young side".
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“The swimming pool was filled with beautiful young girls,” Mr. Trump later told a Mar-a-Lago member, according to Mr. Stone. “‘How nice,’ I thought, ‘he let the neighborhood kids use his pool.’”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/09/us/politics/trump-epstein.html