Arousal for implied Sex or "abuse" on the media

[Frogblossom]

It may not be a GOOD idea for an adult to hook up with a 17-year-old (arguable), and also arguable is that a 17-year-old lacks the understanding of the "ramifications" of sex (mostly culturally induced psychological consequences if safe sex is practiced), but you can't accurately call the older partner in that relationship a "pedophile," nor do I like that they're called "predators" even in completely consentual situations. That is just TOOOOOOO close to their magical arbitrary cutoff line.   . . .   Even more frustrating is that unfortunately you cannot call these inaccurate and arbitrarily escalated words out when someone in society uses them -- there are very few that want to hear any kind of defense of what they view as a "pedo." If for some reasom they were unable to state that the Sun comes up every morning without also (hypothetically) somehow even lowering the SEVERITY of how evil the pedophile is in their mind, they wouldn't want to be hearing about the Sun, either.

Forgive me for editing your post. I only want to address the absurd, ridiculous, totally arbitrary way the word "pedophile" is tossed around in Western society. I am personally acquainted with a couple that have been having sexual relations for three years: they started when she was 26, and he was 67. Don't ask me to explain this strange arrangement, but it's real, it's happening, and they have not hidden it. Some of the young lady's peers have gasped and warned her that the man (who she calls her boyfriend) is a "pedophile," because of the difference in their ages. (The girl is not stupid or clueless; at this moment, she's a graduate student in a medical field.) These silly girls have been conditioned by society to see a pedophile under every bed or behind every bush, so that this young lady is shamed and shunned for her relationship with an older man. Society is simply obsessed with this subject.

[on the rocks]

It's a bizarro world when people throw the world pedophile around in reference to one adult's relationship with another adult.  Like waaayy adult.  26 is "jailbait" now?  Jeez...
Coach Belichek; divorced his wife and is dating a woman in her mid 20's.
How terrible for an old, wrinkly man to be dating a woman who is not also old and wrinkly.