On Fox News, for example, right-wing hosts and guests are alarmed and incensed that some leftists (they’d like all or most to believe all or most) are trivializing the evil and crime of pedophilia by calling this perversion and disorder “minor attraction’ and pedophiles are “minor attractive.”

A minor is a person, male or female, under the age of 18. Young men and women of 16 and 17 are minors. and the generic age of consent is 16 in most US states and 14 or 15 in many other nations, including European countries. If attraction to young men and women of 16 and 17 or 14 and 15 is “pedophilia,” then almost all people, men and women, adults and adolescents, heterosexual and homosexual, are “pedophiles.” And, ironically, the only people who are not attracted to young men and women under the age of 18 are pedophiles who are exclusively attracted to prepubescent children.

Pedophilia is attraction to prepubescent children. And a pedophile is a man (including older male adolescents) with a fixation on and obsession with prepubescent girls or boys. It’s debatable if women can even be pedophiles under the APA definition for the same reason that few if any women are fetishists, at least not in the sense that males are fetishists

The ultimate absurdity is defining women as “rapists” and “pedophiles”.for allowing biological men under age 16 or even 18 to penetrate them in de facto consensual relationships -the only crime in which the “victims” enjoy the actus reus (i.e., the sex) more than the women who “rape” and “molest” them and are often if not usually the aggressors and initiators of their phantasmal and theoretical “victimization.”