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An Old Post Of Mine
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Originally Posted by C.C.Sinned
Defining Adult Attraction to Minors
Some academic writers who use "paedophilia" to refer to pre-pubescent children use the word
*hebephilia*, or sometimes * ephebophilia *, to refer to the sexual attraction of an adult to
an adolescent (ie. to someone between the stages of puberty and adulthood).
As Australia's Parliamentary Joint Committee on the National Crime
Authority comments:
The Macquarie Dictionary defines "paedophilia" as: "sexual
attraction in an adult towards children". . . .
In the medical and sociological literature phrases such as "true paedophilia"
and "genuine paedophilia" are used to refer to biologically pre-pubescent children. . . .
Some academic writers who use "paedophilia" to refer to pre-pubescent children use the word
"hebephilia", or sometimes "ephebophilia", to refer to the sexual attraction
of an adult to an adolescent (ie. to someone between the stages of
puberty and adulthood). However, these terms appear to be rarely used
outside academic writings.
The above statement only begins to plumb the complexity of the problem
of finding adequate terminology for adult attraction to minors. Here, to
show the full intricacy, is a listing of the etymological, clinical/scholarly,
and lay definitions of words that are commonly used to refer to
minor-attracted adults. (The clinical/scholarly and lay meanings are given
according to how the words are commonly used, not how the words are
defined in the dictionary. Multiple meanings are due to different authors
using the same word in different ways.)
PEDOPHILE
Etymological meanings: Pedo- or paedo- is derived from the Greek word
paidos, meaning "boy" or "child." Paidophiles seems to have
been used in ancient times primarily to refer to a man who fell in love with male
adolescents.
Clinical meanings: An adult who is attracted to prepubescent children.
More narrowly, certain criteria are usually set forth to define the form that
attraction takes.
Lay meanings: An adult who is attracted to prepubescent children; an
adult who is attracted to minors; an adult who molests minors; an
adolescent who is attracted to or molests younger children.
HEBEPHILE
Etymological meanings: According to the Liddell-Scott Greek-English
Lexicon, the legal term hebe meant "the time before manhood, at Athens
sixteen years of age"; according to another ancient source cited by
Liddell-Scott, the time before fourteen, and according to an ancient source
on Sparta, the time before eighteen. More generally, the word meant
"youth."
Clinical meanings: An adult who is attracted to adolescents; an adult who
is attracted to adolescents younger than eighteen.
Lay meanings: The word is not commonly used in lay speech.
EPHEBOPHILE
Etymological meanings: According the Liddell-Scott Greek-English
Lexicon, the word ephebos meant "one arrived at adolescence" ≠ a youth
of eighteen years or older, according to most ancient sources. The word
was also used to mean "boy" or "young girl."
Clinical meanings: An adult who is attracted to adolescents; an adult who
is attracted to adolescents younger than eighteen; an adult who is
attracted to adolescents eighteen and older.
Lay meanings: The word is not commonly used in lay speech.
PEDERAST
Etymological meanings: As in the case of pedophile, pederast is derived
from the Greek word paidos, meaning "boy" or "child."
Paiderastes was a synonym of paidophiles, referring primarily to a man who fell in love with
male adolescents. SOURCE
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