The discussion of Pedophilia VS Hebephilia [No one ever talks about this]

[nicholas_weeks]

This kind of discussion, whenever it arises or it becomes more fervent, it's completely meaningless.
The problem with this kind of perception is that we are not talking about sex science every time it arises. Pedophilia inside the social discourse it's a construction. The name, the figure, the way desire is shown, was endorsed for too much time to make it powerful. Talking about Hebephilia, Ephebophilia or MAPs sounds like minimization because it has less power and try to break the repressive ideology that uses the name pedophilia to exert some power.
Summarizing: Everytime some guy says that X is pedophilia and another one says it's actually hebephilia, the second one didn't understand the point.