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you won't be surprised to see what grokipedia has to say about the age of consent
![Societal Stigma and Public Policy Responses
Societal stigma against ephebophilia arises primarily from its conflation with pedophilia and child sexual abuse in media narratives, which escalated during the 1980s amid widespread coverage of abuse scandals.
This period saw a surge in reporting on cases like daycare abuse hysterias, where distinctions between prepubescent victims and post-pubertal adolescents were often blurred, framing all adult attractions to minors as predatory regardless of developmental stage. 153] |541 Such portrayals, driven more by moral outrage than differentiated risk assessments, have entrenched public perceptions of ephebophilic interests as inherently deviant, even when targets exhibit full pubertal maturity and legal capacity in many contexts.
Public surveys underscore this stigma, with qualitative and quantitative data indicating broad condemnation of adult sexual interest in teenagers; for example, studies on attitudes toward minor-attracted persons reveal that a majority endorse views of such attractions as immoral or dangerous, often equating them with harm potential akin to younger age groups despite empirical differences in consent capacity. (551 (56] Policy responses reflect these attitudes, as seen in U.S. mandatory reporting laws that proliferated from the 1970s under the Child Abuse Prevention and Treatment Act of 1974, obligating](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:id5ixjksqzvjflthg7pd45ni/bafkreihawtzqljzp6vs3xyi4kwe7gliytav3djsu7dty6gwvzyj4gwxoxa@jpeg)
![Assessments of Harm and Ethical Viewpoints
Empirical assessments of harm from ephebophilic acts indicate reduced long-term psychological trauma compared to prepubescent cases, with meta-analyses showing that post-pubescent experiences often result in milder or negligible effects when non-coercive. 671 For instance, self-reported outcomes in college samples reveal that while prepubescent abuse correlates with higher pathology, adolescent experiences frequently lack pervasive harm, challenging assumptions of uniform victimhood. [68] These findings persist despite methodological critiques emphasizing selection bias in retrospective studies, underscoring causal distinctions based on developmental stage rather than blanket condemnation. (69]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:id5ixjksqzvjflthg7pd45ni/bafkreibeyfaof4yxi5dlce4aofwymrlcy3dhrlhgdchwot7wx3mc62dzaa@jpeg)
October 30, 2025 at 6:48 PM
you won't be surprised to see what grokipedia has to say about the age of consent
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I am a Certified Sex Therapist. My peers who work with Minor-Attracted Persons (offending and not) have my deep respect. They are the only people who really need to talk about this distinction in any detail.
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
I am a Certified Sex Therapist. My peers who work with Minor-Attracted Persons (offending and not) have my deep respect. They are the only people who really need to talk about this distinction in any detail.
