Hi, Tony, and welcome to GC.

One question...why is it considered so terrible, from a legal and cultural standpoint, for MAA's to admire kids with our eyes? Shouldn't I have the right to take pics of teen girls (as I'm a hebephile) at beaches and other public events and post them while saying something like, "admiring the beauty of adolescent girls"? How is that operating under the "guise" of hebephilia/ephebophilia? Saying that seems to imply that I did something dishonest. Never have I said that the girls in the pics WANT to be admired by adult men, but that doesn't mean that the girls were opposed to being so admired, either. It seems like the law is working to make every instance of an MAA admiring the pic of a minor to be a case of the MAA "exploiting" that young person. It seems like we, as a culture, are dead-set upon insisting that youths never be admired in that way by an adult. But MAA's are going to be here as long as the human race is here, and that means adults who are attracted to young people should be expected to have an interest in capturing youthful beauty on camera and sharing this with like-minded individuals. As a hebephile, I believe adolescent girls are very beautiful, and I see nothing wrong with taking such pics.