Reddit's Pedophilia Posse And The Return Of Jailbait
LatestReddit’s “jailbait” section, on which users posted pictures of (clothed) young girls, was shut down last month after a moderator dispute. Pervs can rejoice, though, because now it’s back.
r/jailbait, for those lucky folks who haven’t heard of it, is “the ephebophile subreddit,” a subsection of Reddit where people who like to look at teenage girls can trade non-naked pictures of them. It currently boasts a membership of nearly 21,000 “potential felons.” Back in August, the subcategory was shut down — not because it’s disgusting, but because of an “internal power struggle” between moderators and site administrators. One user’s theory of the struggle reveals the complexity of Reddit politics: “According to lore, VA the creator came back from self-imposed exile through a backdoor ghost mod and banished the six kings he appointed as heirs to install an army of puppet trolls to post illegal material that incited the wrath of the reddit gods.” Now r/jailbait is back, perhaps because of a deal between Reddit staff and mods, or perhaps because Reddit, no longer under the direct oversight of Conde Nast, can afford to let its perv flag fly.
Whatever the case, ephebophilia and its distinction from pedophilia are popular topics on some subreddits: one thread on r/mensrights included the comment,
The “popular usage” [of the term pedophilia] is basically the pedo-scare created by feminists to criminalize healthy and normal male sexuality – as many boys who are either in jail or on sex offender lists have now discovered (how many? we don’t know since there are no federal stats on who is actually on those lists, but some local studies point to a very significant percentage of “sex offenders” being kids just fooling around..)
Just like the definitions of “rape” or “assault” or “domestic violence” that have been redefined to include pretty much anything a female finds convenient, “pedophile” now effectively means “any guy who is attracted to a woman younger than me”.
Another user argues that the terms ephebophilia and pedophilia “only apply if you have a sexual preference for those development ranges. Normal heterosexual males will generally have sexual attraction for pubescent females of child-bearing age, from puberty till they start to get old and gross (late 20s, early 30s usually haha).”