Ephebophilia

A community portal about Ephebophilia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ephebophilia has been defined as a sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to postpubescent... [more]

A community portal about Ephebophilia with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: Ephebophilia has been defined as a sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to postpubescent adolescents. It comes from the Greek: έφηβος variously defined as "one arrived at puberty", "a youth of 18 who underwent his dokimasia and was registered as a citizen ", and "arriving at man's estate"; and φιλία "love". Despite this classical etymology it is a term of recent coinage, created by psychologist John Money in the late twentieth century. It has been used by the Frenchman Felix Buffiere in 1980 and described at length by Tariq Rahman who argues that it should be used in preference to'homosexuality' for describing grown men's aesthetic and erotic interest in adolescent boys when classical literatures in Persian, Turkish or Urdu are under discussion.