Definition of "pubescent" [pu•bes•cent]

• Reaching or having reached puberty. (adjective)
• Covered with short hairs or soft down. (adjective)

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• "Deflowering a curious and coquettish cusp-pubescent is illegal and icky at best, and, due to “ability to consent,” probably properly defined, in our modern morality, as rape."
• "Post-pubescent is still UNDER AGE – STATUTORY RAPE!!"
• "BLITZER: So you're making a difference between pedophilia and what's called phebophilia (ph), which is the post-pubescent, 16 -, 15 -, 16 -, 17-year-olds as opposed to pre-pubescent, which is pedophelia."