It looks like the discussion is confusing different things by lumping them under the same word.
Let me tell you a story:
There was a young chap who worked as an intern at a company I was at. Like a lot of people his age, he had a girlfriend, and they got intimate together.
The last time I saw him, he told me that it had turned out that his girlfriend has been lying to him about her age - and now her parents were pressing charges of Statuatory Rape!
I never found out how that ended - I left that company soon after as my contract there ended - but I don't think that young man really deserved to be treated a a criminal over this.
And more to the current point - he certainly would not deserve to be treated the same as a man who feels sexual attraction to little children, and can't or won't control that impulse!
Let me tell you a story:
There was a young chap who worked as an intern at a company I was at. Like a lot of people his age, he had a girlfriend, and they got intimate together.
The last time I saw him, he told me that it had turned out that his girlfriend has been lying to him about her age - and now her parents were pressing charges of Statuatory Rape!
I never found out how that ended - I left that company soon after as my contract there ended - but I don't think that young man really deserved to be treated a a criminal over this.
And more to the current point - he certainly would not deserve to be treated the same as a man who feels sexual attraction to little children, and can't or won't control that impulse!