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hebephilia Ephebophilia Sexology Sexuoeroticism that hinges on imagery of or activity with an adolescents. Cf Gerontophilia, Nepiophilia, Paraphilic adolescentilism, Pedophilia. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| I was upset to see that Christie Ayotte, in her article "Thanks a Lot, Foley" [November 7], made no distinction between pedophilia and ephebophilia and that you apparently did not try to correct her. Among priests, ephebophiles are much more common and more homosexually oriented than with comparable pedophiles; statistics reveal that 90 percent of the clergy (priest) sex abuse cases involved ephebophilia (vs. Bernardino's fears concerning sodomy (variously circumlocuted, but usually in the form of male pedophlia and ephebophilia, although Polecritti expands this to include marital sodomy) encountered less indifference. |
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