There's a decent amount of places that allow some level of cushion when it comes to sexual relations around the legal adult age. It's usually about a ~3 year difference if you're a legal adult and your partner is underage. You should probably check your country's consent laws.
Also, pedophilia is being attracted to children. Older teens aren't children and they rarely have the body of one.
Semi related, I had a friend I met when he was 13. He called himself a pedophile openly because he was sexually active and mostly attracted to children and child-like people. He didn't understand why people would lash out at him because of it. After all, this word did describe his attractions almost perfectly. Realize, he had JUST turned 13 years old and he had not yet hit puberty. Years later, long after he had, he had no sexual desires towards children or child-like people at all anymore. He's attracted to people who are sexually mature and the thought of being attracted to a child disgusts him.
There are still people far older than him that KNEW how old he was at the time he was going around that condemn him for being attracted to kids while he himself was a kid.
I'm pretty certain that for people who remain attracted to children long after reaching sexual maturity, whatever switch was supposed to flip to make you more attracted to other sexually mature people never flipped.
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