Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A paraphilia in which adult sexual gratification is derived from fantasies or acts involving a postpubescent adolescent, often of the same gender.
- noun Love of a man for a male youth, idealized in certain societies such as ancient Greece.
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- noun a sexual orientation or preference in which an adult's primary sexual attraction is towards
pubescent orpostpubescent adolescents - noun
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Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The term ephebophilia, derived from the Greek word for “youth,” is sometimes used to describe sexual interest in young people in the first stages of puberty.”
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Secondly, "[Jenkins] disapproves of this, but says that restraining it may threaten quite different sex acts with post-pubescents, which he calls ephebophilia (boy-love).
Priests and Boys: An Exchange Hirsch, David 2002
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Thus, it is correctly classified as ephebophilia, attraction to older adolescents; or hebephilia, attraction to pubescent children.
ChronWatch - Articles Selwyn Duke 2010
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Thus, it is correctly classified as ephebophilia, attraction to older adolescents; or hebephilia, attraction to pubescent children.
ChronWatch - Articles Selwyn Duke 2010
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The great majority of cases now before the church involve not pedophilia but "ephebophilia," an attraction to post-pubescent youths.
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The term "ephebophilia" is rarely used in church debates and the press.
GetReligion 2009
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Wills is right, then, to suggest that "ephebophilia" (or its synonym, "hebephilia)" is not a very useful term ” but for the wrong reason.
Priests and Boys: An Exchange Hirsch, David 2002
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"ephebophilia" or perhaps "paraphilia" (I'm not entirely sure which, I've heard both).
Pharyngula 2009
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The Blue Lagoon pics are basically ephebophilia on a plate.
a quiet evening hradzka 2010
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I most certainly am not equating homosexuality with heterosexuality but I am challenging those who equate homosexuality with ephebophilia via the child sex abuse scandal.
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