A ephebophile is a older adult who are sexually attracted to 15 and 19.
It really grinds my gears that society doesn’t have a problem with a 18 year old having consensual sex with a 17-year-old. Even though the 18 year old is an adult and the 17 year old is a minor. But if 26 year old has consensual sex with a 18 year old. Ah then society has a problem. But why should that be a problem? When both actions are completely harmless as long as both people are consenting adults.
I kinda don’t want to respond since maybe I say something that is misconstrued, so let me preface by saying this: Please don’t fuck or engage sexually in any way with teens.
I get the attraction since that’s the period human hormones go crazy, but that should fade over time in my opinion. As you get older that age group will appear more and more like what they are, kids. 18 is barely out of high school in most cases. You should also avoid being around them since proximity has an effect on attraction.
Development is complex so I understand there are maturity arguments that can be made on a case by case basis, at least in theory, but in practice, it’s just not worth it. More than likely you will hurt someone that thought they were mature but didn’t fully understand something. At worst you will ruin their life and your own.
OP has no interest in getting genuine answers to their question, they simply want people to agree with them.
Their response will be something along the lines of “Well I don’t object to it” or “It’s legal so it’s not wrong”.
The reason why I don’t care about power dynamic and maturity levels is because I don’t think those are vaild reason as to why ephebophilia between two consenting adults is morally wrong.
Because those things can applies to all relationships.
For example if I a 26 year old man want to be in a casual sexual relationship with a 46 year old woman who is more mature, smarter and makes more money than me. Then I don’t think what she is doing is morally wrong because me and her are both consenting adults.
I believe that as long as both people who are engaging in sexual activity with eachother are both consenting adults then it is not morally wrong in my opinion even If the older adult is more mature, smarter and makes more money than the younger adult.