I find conversations where people describe teenagers as children a little uncomfortable They're actually young adults. I'd say that a fifteen year old is actually a man just not one that's reached his majority.
I don't like tautologies like 'a nonce is a nonce" either. I'd say there is a very clear difference between someone who preys on primary/elementary school children and one who goes for high school kids. The twisted Victorians gave the world the idea of childhood which didn't exist before. Now it has come to this. I live in the UK and the country is almost getting towards witch hunts with the unhealthy level of paranoia.
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