...a genuine GLer is someone who has an attraction for underage girls (either LGs or AGs, or both) that runs the full spectrum of attraction, and is not limited to sexual lust only. For instance, a true girl-attracted pedophile or hebephile will have an emotional, social, and aesthetic component to their attraction for girls in their respective age group (or for both age groups, in the case of pedohebephiles) that is every bit as powerful, at least, as the sexual component of their attraction. They will have a strong proclivity towards being able to actually fall in love with girls, and they adore their characteristic personality traits and enjoy their company under general principles, and tend to treat them with a degree of respect for their feelings overall and reverence for their entire being that they rarely receive from teleiophiles. They also tend to enjoy making friends with girls whom they do not have particularly notable degrees of sexual interest in, and they have a strong interest in the entire social world that girls have built for themselves; for example, a girl-attracted pedophile would actually enjoy having a tea party with a girl whom he loved, or sitting and watching a movie with her that she picked out, and wouldn't just be going through the motions to placate her.

In contrast, a child or teen fetishist will tend to have a strictly sexual interest in girls of a respective age group (or both); and will not have any greater degree of respect for them or liking of them as people in a general sense, or great interest in their social world, then the typical teleiophile adult will, including teleiophiles who have a general platonic love of children. I don't condemn those who have a mere fetish, and not a full attraction base, for girls, as long as they succeed in staying respectful to girls and lead law-abiding lives, which I believe the great majority of them manage to do. However, they are not the same thing as genuine GLers, and though they are welcome to visit and post on this board as long as they follow the FAQs (just like everyone else), they are still just guests here. As expected, they often have conflicts with the genuine GLers for whom this board was mainly created for due to all the obvious reasons.