Ephebophilia
Ephebophilia (also called hebephilia) is a sexual attraction to pubescent boys or adolescents. It is often used by boylovers wishing to distinguish an attraction to teenagers from an attraction to younger, pre-pubescent boys (described as pedophilia). A person with such attactions is called an ephebophile (or hebephile).
Etymology
The term ephebophilia comes from the Template:Lang-grc variously defined as "one arrived at puberty", "a youth of eighteen who underwent his dokimasia and was registered as a citizen (Athens)", and "arriving at man's estate;" and Template:Lang "love".[1] It has been used by Dutch psychologist Frits Bernard as far back as 1950,[2] and reprinted in 1960 in the gay support magazine Vriendschap under the pseudonym Victor Servatius,[3] crediting the origin of the term to Magnus Hirschfeld with no exact date given.[4]
The term has been described by Frenchman Félix Buffière in 1980[5] and Pakistani scholar Tariq Rahman,[6] who argued that ephebophilia should be especially used with regard to homosexuality when describing the aesthetic and erotic interest of adult men in adolescent boys in classical Persian, Turkish or Urdu literature. The term was additionally revived by Ray Blanchard to describe adult, especially adult male, sexual attraction to 15 to 19-year-olds.[7]
References
- ↑ Rahman, T. (1988). "Ephebophilia: the case for the use of a new word". Forum for Modern Language Studies 24 (2): 126–141. doi:.
- ↑ Sexology. Retrieved on 2009-07-06.
- ↑ Bernard, F. (1998). Selected publications of Dr Frits Bernard - An international bibliography. Rotterdam: Enclave.
- ↑ Servatius, V. (1960, March 15). Template:Lang [Ephebophilia and science]. Vriendschap, 35-35.
- ↑ Buffière, F. (1980). Template:Lang, Paris, p.11.
- ↑ Rahman, T. (1990). "Boy-Love in the Urdu Ghazal". Annual of Urdu Studies 7: 1–20.
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