Well, actually, Prince Andrew would not be a pedophile. The definition of a pedophile that appears in the Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental (DSM-5) is an adult or teenager 16 years of age or older who is sexually attracted to prepubescent children five or more years their junior. The cutoff point has been debated on whether it should be placed at 13 years old, 12 years old, or 11 years old.

Dr. Ray Blanchard, a Canadian psychiatrist, wanted to extend the definition of pedophilia to include teenagers in a pedophile's age pole of attraction back in 2013. However, the the American Psychiatric Association (A. P. A.) denied his request. Even if he had gotten his way back then, Virginia Roberts would still have been considered to be too old to be a potential target of pedophilia.

In any event, the A. P. A. would deem Virginia Roberts to have been too old at the ripe age of 17 to have been the potential target of a pedophile back when she got involved with Prince Andrew. She wasn't even living the lifestyle of a potential child-molestation victim back then. While she was involved with Prince Andrew at the age of 17, she was not living at home with her parents but rather with her boyfriend in New York City. She was well beyond Tanner Stage 1 in her bodily development. Therefore, she was clearly past the crayons-and-playground phase of her life, and no real pedophile would have had any kind of sexual interest in her. To a pedophile, she would have looked like an old lady when she was 17.

Did Prince Andrew break the law in hooking up with Virginia Roberts? Of course, he did. She was under the control of slave drivers, and she felt obligated to have sex with him. That would make him a hedonist and a criminal offender, but it would not make him a pedophile. Now, if she had been 7 years old, then it would make Prince Andrew a pedophile.

Am I surprised about Prince Andrew's behavior? No, I'm not. Let's remember that he is a descendent of King Henry VIII, who had no moral compass and exercised no moral boundaries whenever he took any woman to bed with him.

Are Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell pedophiles? Technically, they both fall short of being ones. None of the girls that they enslaved were prepubescent children. Now, if you want to argue that they were tyrants and rich scoundrels, you would get no argument from me. I don't believe that Jeffrey Epstein committed suicide. Somebody murdered him.

Journalists and particularly prosecutors here in the United States have to be careful whom they accuse of being pedophiles. Criminal defendants have actually gotten off the hook on a technicality because of it whenever it turned out that they didn't qualify to be pedophiles under the DSM-5.