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Gaetz didn't actually sleep with a 17 year old. If he did, I would call him a pedo too. An adult sleeping with a 16,17 year old is sick behavior.

I didn't say he actually did, but that he was called a pedophile when accused of hooking up with a 17yo.

Which isn't pedophilia as words have meaning, and your opinion doesn't matter. People like you do harm to the true issue of pedophilia using the term for someone hooking up with a pubescent teenager.

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She is not an adult. She is a minor. I call that a kid.

Nature doesn't care about your definition of it. When it comes to this topic it's prepubescent vs pubescent. The transition period years needs to be handle accordingly and seems worldwide it has to avoid the confusion of assuming if one is or isn't ready to do what nature intended....procreate.

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Dozens of girls 10 years or younger have given birth. Some were 5-6. Would you dismiss an adult sleeping with a 10 year old because the child has hit puberty?

As I mentioned in my post there is a difference when it comes to body maturity in the first years of puberty, and that difference is ironed out by 14/15. Why this about the avg lowest age world wide for age of consent. Some are younger still, but none less than 13 I believe.

At the end of the day as a Christian imo there's no sin with having sex with a pubescent girl if properly married in the eyes of God. On the other end in the eyes of God it's a sin to have sex outside of marriage no matter the females age...young teen or elderly.

Nature vs society are obviously different. One thing we need to find a way to continue endorsing is the proper usage of pedophilia or that true sin of hurting one God's children gets diluted. A 16-17yo girl doesn't fall under this in God's eyes imo.