Puberty
Puberty is the process of physical changes through which a child's body matures into an adult body capable of sexual reproduction to enable fertilization. It is initiated by hormonal signals from the brain to the gonads: the ovaries in a girl, the testes in a boy. In response to the signals, the gonads produce hormones that stimulate libido and the growth, function, and transformation of the brain, bones, muscle, blood, skin, hair, breasts, and sex organs. Physical growth—height and weight—accelerates in the first half of puberty and is completed when the child has developed an adult body. Until the maturation of their reproductive capabilities, the pre-pubertal physical differences between boys and girls are the external sex organs.
(The above is taken directly from the Wikipedia article.)
Contrary to popular belief, the onset of puberty does not initiate a young person's first sexual desires. Sex, in humans (as opposed to animals) is a form of socializing and of establishing friendships as well as a means of reproducing the species.
To BoyLovers, the arrival at puberty in boys is important. Pederasts are attracted to boys in early to late-puberty, while pedophiles usually find the pubescent and post-pubescent young person's body not sexually attractive. Studies have shown [1] that it is not just the onset of puberty that determines the lessening of sexual interest, but it is the presence of body hair and other strong secondary sexual characteristics which determine the strength of attraction. Pedophiles and pederasts may find an older person sexually attractive even when they become post-pubescent if the secondary sexual characteristics are not strongly displayed.
In the case of pederasts, sexual attraction and sexual activity may continue even though the boy has passed through puberty, due to the strong friendships and emotional attachments which had been formed. This contradicts the common myth that pedophiles and pederasts discard their friendships when the friend passes the physical growth stage most attractive to the pedophile or pederast.
References
- ↑ Rüdiger Lautmann, Die Lust am Kind. Portrait des Pädophilen, Hamburg: Ingrid Klein Verlag GmbH. 1994. ISBN 3-89521-015-3
See also
- Peri-pubescence, the beginnings of sexual awakenings (usually beginning around age 7, when adrenarche begins.)
- Adrenarche, the true beginning of puberty
- Gonadarche, the visible external signs (bodily hair growth, etc.) that puberty has begun
External Links
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rüdiger_Lautmann
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puberty
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/secondary sexual characteristics
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/friendship
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/sexual desire
- Die Lust am Kind: Portrait des Pädophilen, (Attraction to Children) in GERMAN is available for download here:
- NOTE: An English translation is being prepared, and will be available soon. A link will be added to BoyWiki when it is finished.
- http://www.itp-arcados.net/wissenschaft-lautmann-die-lust-am-kind.pdf
- Amazon.com listing
http://www.amazon.de/Die-Lust-Kind-R%C3%BCdiger-Lautmann/dp/3895210153
- A google search of Newgon wiki for articles including "puberty":
