hebephilia

The prevalence of hebephilia within the general population is unknown.

The terms hebephilia or ephebophilia may be more accurate in these cases.

Avoidance explores the topics of child sexual abuse, hebephilia and pederasty.

The word hebephilia comes from Greek.

Blanchard's proposal to add hebephilia to the DSM-5 has proved controversial.

In 1914, physician Kurt Boas described hebephilia as "an alleged form of female fetishism."

Hebephilia and ephebophilia are sexual preference for pubescent and post-pubescent youths, respectively.

The specific paraphilias he has questioned as mental illnesses include pedophilia, hebephilia, sadism, autogynephilia, and zoophilia.

That speculative adaptationist argument against the inclusion of hebephilia in the DSM cannot be sustained."

"Hebephilia: Quintessence of Diagnostic Pretextuality", Behavioral Sciences and the Law.

In court cases where the term hebephilia is used, it is placed within the DSM category of paraphilia, not otherwise specified.

He summarized his discussion with the statement "it appears that the hebephilia proposal is one where criminality and social disapproval are being confused with mental disorder."

In a letter to the editor by Thomas Zander, serious consequences of expanding the definition of pedophilia to include hebephilia were additionally expressed.

In 2008, Blanchard was the lead author of an influential paper proposing the introduction of hebephilia in the DSM-5.

From this, Blanchard concluded that "there is no empirical basis for the hypothesis that hebephilia was associated with increased reproductive success in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness.

Franklin also objects to the use of hebephilia during trials of individuals who may be imprisoned on the basis of sexually violent predator laws in the United States.

Chronophilia (Pedophilia, Hebephilia, Ephebophilia, Teleiophilia, Gerontophilia)

The work grew out of efforts to seek neurodevelopmental etiologies for pedophilia, transsexualism and male homosexuality, with a publication on in 2004 being the first to incorporate hebephilia into the program.

It is concluded that "few would want to label erotic interest in late - or even mid - adolescents as a psychopathology, so the term hebephilia may have been ignored along with ephebophilia."

Based on their results, Blanchard suggested that the DSM-5 could account for these data by subdividing the existing diagnosis of pedophilia into hebephilia and a narrower definition of pedophilia.

Blanchard responded to Franklin's comment in a letter to the editor, noting that presumably Franklin's "adaptationist argument" applied only to heterosexual males, as homosexual hebephilia would have no reproductive advantages.

Blanchard suggested the criteria be split into pedophilia as sexually attracted to prepubescent children who are generally younger than 11, and hebephilia as sexual attraction to pubescent children, generally 11-14 years old.

The story makes reference to a teenage girl as one of the women Erwin tries to make part of his collection, an early reference to the theme of hebephilia that is later spun out in Lolita.