Anyone your age (I have ascertained that you are at least over 30 and therefore at least middle aged) , finding teenagers still fuckable through semantic loopholes.
What words actually mean is not a "semantic loophole". I do not think it's appropriate for >30 to go after, say, 15 year olds, but it's not "pedophilia" either, as the latter refers specifically to an attraction to prepubescent children.
What happens when you misapply terms like this is that you get on a sort of "dysphemism treadmill", where the unsavory term gets applied to broader and broader categories. You are already on it, as you are not content to misapplying it to minors, but also to 18 and 19 year old adult teenagers. And some people (particularly those terminally online) will call attraction to those in their early 20s as "pedophilia". Or take Politesse, who evidently thinks a jeans ad with a 28 year old Sidney Sweeney is "pedo bait".
You're welcome. That's only my opinion, h3owever. Feel free to Gaetz your way out of this as much as you'd like. I'm not stopping you..
While I think it is wrong to pay a 17 year old for sex, it certainly is not "pedophilia", since a 17 year old is developmentally hardly different from an 18 year old, or even a 20 year old.
There is this unfortunate trend to claim that if the worst possible term is not misapplied to something or someone, that means that somebody must approve of it. If I do not call Gaetz a "pedophile", that must mean I approve of him, and hell, that must mean I secretly want to fuck 17 year old hookers myself.
That is also evident in misapplying terms like "Nazi", "fascist", and alternatively, "communist", to people to whom that does not really apply.