cause it seems that nobody has issues with teens dating teens +- 2 years.
dating is allowed to have ranges after you're an adult because both parties involved are unlikely to take advantage of one another. no one will be angry at a couple of 25 and 20 because of this.
humans are considered to
start transitioning into adolescence at
12 or 13 years old. during this time they are
extremely susceptible to influence by their peer group.a quick google search for the definition of hebephilia gives me
erotic preference for pubescent children (roughly, ages 11 or 12-14), but it has not become widely used.so, let's make comparisons:
port as a 15 year old was either a freshman or a sophomore in high school. by being attracted to 11-14 year olds, their range of preference includes most likely prepubescent children, from 5th graders to other freshmen. this is already unacceptable, as they'd have to be going out of their way to expose themselves to children for this attraction to work - from the start of high school onwards they'd only be exposed to be in their immediate age range and above.
port as a 17 year old was either a junior or a senior in high school. at this age, they were legally allowed to open their own bank account, get a job, buy a car,
own a gun in certain states, and all sorts of other things, as legal acknowledgements of their maturity and decision making skills over people younger than they. their preference at this time still seemed to be one of a shotacon/lolicon, so we'll go back to the hebephile definition they've chosen - at the age of 17, they were attracted to people 2 grades below them, 5th graders and everything in between. their peer group wouldn't include any of these things At All.
and keep in mind this is exclusively loveual attraction. people may not have issues with Romantic relations because a lot of Romantic relations form out of unusual circumstance - a relationship between a 15 year old and a 17 year old May be totally consensual and May have not risen out of any sort of abuse, however rare this may be, but a loveual relationship between those same people would definitely be abusive because the younger one in this situation is literally unable to reason motives or consequences as well as the 17 year old is because their brain is less developed.
do you not have any issue with this?