A question

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IAmScared
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A question

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My friend (let's call her Ana) was 20 when she had vaginal sex with a man who was 25. My mum and I think it's pedophilia since psychologists told Ana she is infantile.Now,what happened to Ana was legal,but do you think that ,MORALLY SPEAKING ,it was pedophilia?
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Re: A question

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Pedophilia is about an adult person being attracted to a pre-pubescent (physically so) person. So no, that is not at all what you appear to be describing here. What you appear to be describing here are two people around the same age being sexual with one another. That said, I'm not very comfortable with us discussing someone, including something their therapist apparently said about them privately, who isn't here to speak for themselves like this, so I'm closing this thread.
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