Inappropriate touching of Scouts by leaders

[Gold Winger]

I would have thought that we were talking about ephebophelia and not pedophelia.

[Backwoods]

Well Goldwinger maybe, but given that most people don't know what ephebophelia is but understand what pedophila is, clarity wins out. In addition, boy scouts bridge from Webelos as early as 10 years old, pre-adolescent for several years yet, so pedophilia is the appropriate term.

 

For others following this post Ephebophila is attraction to adolescent children, pedophila is attraction to pre-adolescent children. The term is often defined (mistakenly) as narrowly defined to post-pubertal male children, both terms refer to attractions to either gender.

 

I will yield the soap box

 

-Steve

[John-in-KC]

Steve,

 

Thanks for the technical comments

 

Welcome to the campfire!! Look forward to professional as well as Scouting insights