ephebophilia (adjective, ephebophilic): a paraphilia of the eligibilic/stigmatic type distinct from
nepiophilia and
pedophiliain that the age of the partner is postpubertal and adolescent [from Greek,
ephebos, a postpubertal young person + -philia] The technical term for the reciprocal paraphilic condition in which an older person impersonates an adolescent is
paraphilic adolescentilism.
Synonym,
hebephilia, the condtition in which an adult is responsive to and dependent on the actuality or imagery of erotic/sexual activity with an adolescent boy or girl in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate or achieve orgasm. An ephebophiliac may be of either sex. Ephebophilic activity may be replayed in fantasy during masturbation or copulation with an older partner.
See also gerontophilia;
nepiophilia;
pedophilia.
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