I found a VERY interesting article relating to boy-love and a new scientific theory that perhaps those who enjoy the imagery and company of younger folks perhaps are not necessarily “pedophiles”. Maybe there is an age of acceptance on the horizon? One can hope.

Scientific American: Pedophiles, Hebephiles and Ephebophiles, Oh My: Erotic Age Orientation

From the article:

If Jackson did fall outside the norm in his “erotic age orientation”—and we may never know if he did—he was almost certainly what’s called a hebephile, a newly proposed diagnostic classification in which people display a sexual preference for children at the cusp of puberty, between the ages of, roughly, 11 to 14 years of age. Pedophiles, in contrast, show a sexual preference for clearly prepubescent children.

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In the psychiatric community, there’s recently been a hubbub of commotion concerning whether hebephelia should be designated as a medical disorder or, instead, seen simply as a normal variant of sexual orientation and not indicative of brain pathology.

It’s worth the read!

-Caelen

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