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    In August 1967, Gacy sexually assaulted 15-year-old Donald Voorhees, the son of a fellow Jaycee.

    the attempted assault of 16-year-old Edward Lynch.

    a 16-year-old named Timothy Jack McCoy

    John Butkovich, an 18-year-old PDM employee

    18-year-old Darrell Samson

    a 17-year-old Lakeview teenager named Michael Bonnin

    a 16-year-old Minnesota youth

    a 19-year-old construction worker

    a 21-year-old named Francis Alexander

    17-year-old Gregory Godzik

    19-year-old John Szyc

    a 20-year-old Michigan native named Jon Prestidge

    six more young men between the ages of 16 and 21

    This is ephebophilia. Dahmer was the same way.

    [–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

    I think you'll find that paedophiles who target teens are far more likely to be psychos than those who target prepubescent children.

    They ones who target young children tend to have low impulse control, low social skills or low IQ or all of those things. They are literally defective humans who target little kids because they see them as easy prey.

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    Going after teens doesn't make someone a pedophile. You have your Jeffrey Epstein types, with an interest in younger teens, but he's still not technically a pedophile. "Psychos" like Dahmer and Gacy were generally interested in older teens. This is the norm for homosexual males. For that matter, it's also the norm for heterosexual males. Ephebophilia is therefore not considered paraphilic. Dahmer and Gacy weren't aberrant by being ephebophiles, but were aberrant by being homosexuals.

    [–]jet199 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    Whatever your definition people who target young children aren't often psychos.