>>92835
>Was pedophilic attraction adaptive in caveman times?
Long story short, no. Based on studies of tribal and early agricultural societies in South America, Southern Africa, New Guinea, Australia etc. most of the evidence points to children being betrothed after six or seven (when their survival rate increased dramatically), sexual intercourse occurring around menarche after marriage, then their first child coming around 15-24 depending on region. Only a few societies ever encouraged sex between preteen's and adults and these relationships were not seen wholly as sexual (baby boys were masturbated by slave/servant women to calm them for instance). The most adaptive behavior is to reproduce as soon as possible because there was such a high rate of death in most prehistoric periods. If you horded a bunch of 8yr old's in South Africa for instance, due to their subsistence lifestyle, there is a high probability you would not survive long enough to mate. Also, with many of these hunter/gatherer societies where young girls marry older men (usually in their lower twenties), divorce is very common. Second marriages tend to be with men within four years of the girls and last much longer, if not for life.
The most successful peoples tended to guard their children, but let the children play sex games with each other, while keeping adult male/child female relationships to a minimum. Girl's were seen as a highly valuable and it is usually the domain of mothers, aunts, and grandmothers to forge these marriage ties with other families. For most of these societies, pedophiles were often seen as 'wrong' in the head or childish or not fully developed and were often shunned, not given full rights in their tribes/villages, or were simply cast out. Childhood is a thing most tribes did not tolerate after a certain hallmark moment (menarche, first hunt, ritual).