What draws you to them? What about their looks, personality, mannerisms, and age? What ages do you like specifically?

Well, first things first...

What draws you to them? What about their looks...

Just that; their looks. 'n in that department, it's mostly in the subject line - structural difference.

In other words, well... a photograph can easily be taken such that there is no objective reference to compare size, or a composite can be assembled (or "magic room" illusion constructed) so that the "child" is bigger than the "adult." Do you now mistake children for adults and vice versa? Usually, no.

Those... are the markers of identification. Meanwhile, breasts are objectively odd-looking and objectively outside the human spectrum - boy's chest, girl's chest, man's chest, woman's chest; one of these things is not like the others - and puberty tends to turn the labia minora from "something elegant" to.... looking like one's hpv infection is not well-regulated.

I want to avoid teasing people about it. It happens. It's supposed to. Celebrate it. A pin-up poster is about how it looks on a wall; a person is about human experience and human happiness. But if you're asking me to dive right in and enjoy the pin-up... no.

All of that wouldn't mean that much without the other markers. Palate thickness, mouth-to-chin distance and shape of the cranial cavity are some of the larger markers in photo editing - in case you want to age-deprogress someone in mspaint - but there is in fact more; anything you could differentiate in isolation.

Studies are ample regarding paedomorphism and oxytocin, and studies are ample regarding oxytocin injection and erection. We're just a little less sociopathic than the rest, the carriers of your nurture instinct. Wipe us out, and you get the world you've got now - a 50%+ sexual assault rate in fosterage per household per year, rampant child neglect, etc. It's not good.

I came here kind of assuming paedosexuals just liked most kids from toddlers to tweens. However I learned that is not the case.

Yeah.

It can apparently be pretty well mapped with a tri-state arousability measure (+, 0, -), a default baseline from among the three, a baby/kid/teen differentiation, and extreme border synergism.

Someone at {++-}{0} at base state 0 is going to find infants to early tweens sort of interesting, someone at {++-}{-}is going to be toddler-transitional only, etc, etc....

It's debatable whether to split "kid" into a preschool/adrenarche split, for four slots. It shows up in listed attractions as slightly different, but there's no border synergy effect... suggesting it's probably a side result of {-+0} and {0+-} effects... despite it being wierd to have "toddler" and "early childhood" seperately with only toddler being border-transitional, it seems - possibly a baseline-state variance.

Still working on it. Totally depressed there's no easy data for "adult" developmental chapters, because it would be awesome to extend this.