Where I live the age for consentment is 14, because it was never changed from back when whites first colonized here some 485 years ago. So in that sense, you are right, it seems that historically, if not biologically, 14 is the start of the age of reproduction.

However, giving in to every base instinct does not make you "RIGHT" either. In other words it's not because 14 is a fertile age that you need to seek out 14-year-olds as a priority for SEX. We're not talking about MARRYING which is what it was back then, or REPRODUCTION. Just... fucking.

But pedophilia is not just a 30-year-old doing a 17-year-old ermahgawsh he a peedewfile.

NO.

Pedophilia is VERY SICK INDIVIDUALS that are 40, 50, 60, or more and want to FUCK CHILDREN. 12, 10, 8, 6, 5, 2 year olds. Yes, this has happened. Even younger victims have been recorded, I am sure.

So it goes WAY BEYOND your conception of an "instinct of a healthy mate". It is abject in the purest sense of the word. Look it up, it's worth it.