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Foggo, Daniel, Police chief sparks row over stigma of sex with children; Sunday Times, 19 November 2006 - Leading Article: Drawing the Age Line 
THE police’s leading child protection officer has said that men who have sex with children should not be classed as “paedophiles” if the victim is between the ages of 13 and 15 years old. [...] Only those who targeted prepubescent children deserved to be labeled and treated as “paedophiles”.
He added that the term “child pornography” should apply only to images of children aged below 13, for the same reason.

Gieles, FEJ, Wrong Word & Concept; Summary of a lecture given by Frans E.J. Gieles, Ph.D. on 22 January 1997, introducing a panel discussion on pedophilia at Alcmæon, the Utrecht Faculty Association for the Social Sciences. 

Über den Begriff 'Pädophilie'

De 'pedofilia' como un concepto

Rivas, Titus, Voluntary and harmless affectionate relationships between minors and adults outside the family 
For several decades now, sexologists have been conducting research into the phenomenon of voluntary "pedophile relationships". These are relationships which at least as long as they exist are experienced by the child as voluntary and in which there does not have to be any sexuality. We're talking about affectionate relationships between an adult with pedophile feelings (of erotic attraction or being in love) and a minor up to sixteen years of age.