lol come on, the whole "don't compare pedos to gays" was an entire virtue signal and it has nothing to do with laws. a Pedo who doesn't act on their urges can go their entire lives without seeing a prison cell.
In the United States, you legally cannot treat them the same, and there is reasoning why. So I chimed in.
People who have this attraction unbeknownst... this is in no way relevant to me. Me knowing would obviously change that, lol
Then you should not engage with the conversation at all. This entire time we were talking about the attraction itself, hence why I compared it to hetero and homo atractions. See yourself out of this if you cannot engage at all
I gave my two cents as someone who makes housing determinations with pedophilia as a critical and insurmountable factor when it is documented. You're free to not respond by the same token.
and btw I can easily come up with hundreds of scenarios where the gay guy who has never touched a man can consume content for pleasure without consent, same with a straight man. Attraction does not equal action/behavior
If we're talking about pleasuring yourself to someone of the same sex, consent is somewhere between arguable and implied. If it is not given, then same sex or not doesn't matter.
This is not possible with a minor. You are free to get into the weeds of what you think should be true, I am just telling you the reality of what you will see at a state government level. You will find an extremely small number in the United States who are authorized to give a shit about whether or not someone is gay.