What are your views on pedophilia/hebephilia?

[Shlup]

"Go read a book" gives the impression that you want to belittle my knowledge of the subject. What I have studied is of no relevance to this discussion, as it is a personal detail about me. Hence, ad hominem -- an appeal to the person, and not the point of the discussion.

This isn't EoEO, so I haven't been taking this thread seriously enough to question you knowledge of the subject in a polite way. What you have studies is relevant to the discussion--if you're making claims you should know something about the subject, shouldn't you?

What do you mean by "reproductive peak"? Maybe I misunderstood you.

The time at which the human body is best able to produce an offspring. A woman's body is most able to support an offspring after it has fully developed (late teens, at the earliest), and at this point the most desirable genetic material is available. After a woman's reproductive peak birth defects increase either due to damage to her remaining eggs, or just that the more desirable eggs were released before the less desirable ones.

I don't mean sexual peak; I mean reproductive peak. A woman's sexual peak is in her mid-thirties. The function of hormones in the teenage years is to facilitate physical development.

Setting that aside for a moment, let's consider something -- images of young girls are plastered all over the place. Whether they are selling common products / services, or blatant pornography, they have become a popular method of advertisement. Since advertisement naturally extends to consumer interest, what does this say about the general population? Either several men are naturally attracted to young girls, or there is an overwhelming instance of pedophilia.

Women in advertisements and pronography are usually in their late teens to early twenties--their reproductive peak. I'm critisizing your notion that it's acceptable for men to be attracted to girls in their mid-teens (sixteen, in your earlier example).