Eh, you might want to look up the word “pedophilia” in a dictionary. But here, let me help you:
Pedophilia is not a legal term. In fact, the term pedophilia doesn’t even describe an act, but rather a condition of being sexually attracted to prepubertal children. It’s a clinical/scientific term. The words you’re looking for are “child sexual abuse” or “child molestation” but these are not the same thing:
As I’ve said multiple times in many of my posts, the terms pedophile and child molester are often indistinguishable in people’s minds…medium.com
Moreover, in the context of the article at hand about child prostitution, we’re talking about teenage “children”, therefore the term pedophilia is even more out of place.
However, I understand your confusion, especially coming from the UK (as I assume based on your spelling of pedophilia with “ae”), because irresponsible media organizations (notably in the UK) have been conflating the terms pedophilia and child sexual abuse/molestation for way too long:
I pointed out in my first article that pedophilia and child molestation are not one and the same. That, in fact, most pedophiles don’t…medium.com
So please educate yourself before you continue perpetuating the stigma of all pedophiles by conflating all of them with child sexual abusers.
