Ephebophilia: Sexual preference characterized by sexual attraction to adolescents aged from 15/16-18/19

Ephebophilia is when an older adult is sexually attracted to post-pubescent teenagers or adolescents—usually those in the age range 15–19.

Adults with this attraction are called ephebophiles. Ephebophilia is not just the sexual attraction to teenage partners but is when an adult prefers such sexual partners.

Specific words are used by scientists for chronophilias, which is when people are mostly or only sexually attracted to specific age groups. Along with ephebophilia, another example is hebephilia, which means that a person is mostly or only sexually attracted to younger pubescent people. The word pedophilia means that a person is mostly or only sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children; but the term pedophilia is commonly misused to refer to any sexual interest in legally minors under the average legal age of majority of 18 even if they're post-pubescent, and this is also due to the fact that the age of majority (in the states where it is 18 but in other cases it can be higher or lower) and the age of consent are very often confused in the West as the same also due to the fact that in some states they can both coincide (confusion perpetuated also by media, like entertainment and journalism), and this confusion and misuse of the words can cause not only serious cases of ageism but also severe legal repercussions involving slander or/and defamation.

Also, unlike pedophilia, ephebophilia is not classified as a psychiatrist diagnosis or disorder.

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