Zen12? If you were defining pedophiles solely as individuals over 16 years of age who are sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children five or more years younger than them, as specified in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders), I would be completely in agreement with your article. However, when you talk about pedophiles preying on teenagers therein, that is where you are only stating opinions rather than actual facts, which become highly debatable. Regarding teenagers straying outside their age circles for romantic endeavors, what may be illegal or taboo in one society or nation could be perfectly acceptable and legal in another society or nation. I think the bottom line is whether there is actual wrongdoing or whether anyone is actually getting hurt. I have to admit that I have never been happy about adult men attempting to initiate homosexual relationships with adolescent boys, because I saw the movie "Ode To Billie Joe" and I feel that a young boy struggling with his sexuality probably should avoid any such sexual encounters that he may later regret. However, if a 14- or 15-year-old girl has strict parents and she likes a young man who may be older than what her parents approve of, I can understand why she and her boyfriend may lie to her parents about the young man's age. When daytime talk shows were popular so many years ago, it was common to hear stories about some 14-year-old girl misleading her parents to believe that her 20-year-old boyfriend was only 15 or 16 years old to gain their approval for her to date him. Moreover, despite all the current commotion in the United States of America about teenage girls marrying men over the age of majority, I still believe that state jurisdictions throughout my country need to maintain the status quo and resist allowing for 18 years old to become the minimum marriageable age with no exceptions. My experience in speaking with married couples that fit this description is that one of their main objectives in getting married is to disassociate themselves with pedophilia and pedophiles as much as possible, and it is only understandable that they would not want to be associated with such people in any manner. Whenever I hear some 18-year-old man on YouTube preaching that he would never date a 14-year-old girl because he believes that it would be pedophilia and that he considers Corey Feldman to be the ambassador of the movement against pedophiles, I find myself laughing inasmuch as Corey Feldman himself was involved with a 14-year-old girl when he was 18 years old. That 14-year-old girl was actress Drew Barrymore. At the end of the day, I find it a disgrace that people should have to hide in the pedophile closet if they were never pedophiles in the first place. On the other hand, adults who sexually assault small children under the age of 11 years old will always be the way they are, even if they get therapy.