The story, today, is that Foley is not a pedophile, and oh by the way he's a victim of child sex abuse.
And, oh, by the way by the way by the way, Mark Foley is gay, he'll cop to that - but he is not, I repeat not, a pedophile.
from CBS
Let's take a look at what Wiki says about pedophilia:
Strictly speaking, this definition would include many adolescents and prepubescents, for whom such an interest might be normal; thus, some experts add the criterion that the interest be toward children at least five years younger than the subject.
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* Ephebophilia, also known as hebephilia, is the condition of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to adolescents. These terms are used in contrast with pedophilia; however pedophilia is sometimes used more broadly in the western world to describe both ephebophilia and attraction to younger children, that is, any person younger than the legal age of consent. Ephebophilia is a term of recent coinage, and does not have broad academic acceptance as constituting a paraphilia.
* Pederasty has historically been given sharply different meanings, sometimes referring to male homosexuality in general and sometimes specifically to homosexual male pedophilia. In academic usage the word has still a third meaning, referring specifically to the age-structured homosexuality practiced in classical Greece between older men and adolescents, and by extension to age-structured homosexuality in other cultures.
So, I suppose the next wave of information (By "information" I mean "propaganda") will be parsing the definition of pedophile in favor of Ephebophilia, which no one has ever heard of and sounds is most definitely not pedophilia.
Anything but that.
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