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Guys please stop misusing serious terms like pedophile. A pedophile is someone who's sexually attracted to prepubescent children. It's a psychiatric disorder. In fact, majority of child molestors aren't even pedophiles at all. And many pedophiles don't commit csa.
Here, the mc is post pubescent and the ml has not shown any kind sexual attraction to a prepubescent child, he didn't even know the mc was underage when he targeted him so he's not a pedophile. Stop calling him that.
To give an example** MAJOR CHAINSAW MAN PART 1 SPOILERS** Read at your own risk
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Makima sexually abuses Denji and offers him sexual favours in return for doing her bidding but she's not a pedophile. And even the fandom agrees on this. She's a groomer and yes she did sexually abuse Denji but that doesn't make her a pedophile.
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An underage character/adult character relationship is not pedophilia, you're conflating underage with prepubescent. I understand why it makes some people uncomfortable but this constant misuse of terms like 'pedophile' trivializes the real, horrific problems.