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Being a peodphile does not make you a child molester.
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Despite the fact I disagree with your other positions entirely - I do not think it is right for an adult to have a relationship with a child - I have to agree with this, for reasons of pedantry more than anything else.
The word paedophile is used, for an unknown reason, to describe those who specifically sexually abuse children in one form or another - either indirectly (through pornography) or directly (through molestation or intercourse) - but the actual definition of the word is merely "an adult who is sexually attracted to children". In which case, someone can be a paedophile - and yet not mistreat directly or indirectly children at all. But the way the word is used today it suggests that if someone is a paedophile they have to have mistreated a child.