Talk:Ephebophilia
Hebephilia Separation
I noticed that 'Hebephilia' redirects to this article, and this article mentions that ephebophilia is "also called hebephilia," however the whole description is very boylove oriented. The only mention of it being used for attraction to adolescent girls is "... but may be applied to all adolescents." However, it then goes on to explain how boylove communities use the term to distinguish between attraction to "teenagers" from attraction to "younger, pre-pubescent boys."
I want to make this more gender balanced, so I would either fix up this article to be less boylove oriented, or dedicate this article to attraction to adolescent boys and 'Hebephilia' to attraction to adolescent girls. I personally would lean toward the latter since 'ephebos' refers to adolescent boys while 'hebe' refers to the goddess (female) of youth. What do other editors think about this? --Pantheadoros 03:33, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- I corrected the homosexism. As far as I am aware, no one else actually distinguishes between hebephilia and ephebophilia on gender lines. Jillium 04:27, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
- Well, I know Visions of Alice has a board called 'Hebephilia', and my explanation as to why there would be a difference still stands. However, as long as it is balanced, it is better. Thank you. --Pantheadoros 04:33, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
Half an hour of work gone
I'm about to burn my laptop.
The subject that needs to be covered is the Hebephilia/DSM/Blanchard controversy:
http://www.karenfranklin.com/hebephilia.html
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2007/10/invasion-of-hebephile-hunters.html
http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2009/06/hebephilia-struck-by-third-blow.html The Admins 21:01, 9 June 2009 (UTC)
Apparently, "ephebophilia" refers to males only, and "partenophilia" to females.
Taking the word apart, "ephebos" is an ancient Greek term for a male adolescent. (Wikipedia, Britannica). The "-philia" suffix, meaning love, is usually used in the mainstream to denote various paraphilic disorders.
The German-language Wikipedia actually states that "ephebeophilia" only refers to adults being attracted to pubescent teenage males, with the female counterpart being "partenophilia".
On the English Wikipedia, "parthenophilia" is just a redirect to "Virginity", and "parthenos" is just an ancient greek term for "virgin", but with no specific age/maturity linked to it.
- https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Parthenophilia&redirect=no
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parthenos
They even have the term "teleiophilia" for adult-to-adult attraction, but it is not a standalone article, just a redirect to "Chronophilia", on both the German and English Wikipedias.
This isn't the only time two language editions of Wikipedia contradicted each other. The German Wikipedia also states circumcision reduces sexual sensitivity (which is the correct one), while the English one claims it doesn't (source), probably a result of the high USA circumcision rate. Clearly not unbiased.
It seems corrections will have to be made to this article. It should however be denoted that more people understand "ephebophilia" as referring to both males and females, due to the popular incorrect use of the term. JJ1 (talk) 17:46, 17 July 2026 (UTC)