A chronophilia is a distinct type of sexual attraction pattern that varies as a function of the ages of preferred sexual targets.
Chronophilic categories, primary or exclusive sexual attraction to:
* Nepiophilia: toddlers and infants - under 5
* Pedophilia: pre-pubertal children, typically age 5 - 10
* Hebephilia: children 11–14 years, just at or past puberty
* Ephebophilia: older minors just under or at age of consent
* Teleiophilia: traditional reproductive age
* Mesophilia: middle age
* Gerontophilia: older age
People in the Nepiophilia to Hebephilia categories are typically prosecuted when they act on their attraction and should seek professional help.
Those in the Ephebophilia category may escape prosecution, but if they are significantly older than their targets, they are definitely predators who should be kept away from young people, e.g. not given jobs in professions where they are in contact with young people. They should be screened out systematically.
Note that any obsessive interest in a specific age category may be problematic.
This article responds specifically to the question if Hebephilia is a mental disorder or if it should be considered as normal.
A very good answer!
askthepsych.com/atp/2011/12/15…
"Hebephilia is a recently proposed diagnostic categorization in which people show a sexual preference for individuals in the early years of puberty, generally between the ages of 11 and 14. In contrast, pedophilia is a sexual preference for prepubescent children. You are correct in that hebephilia is not currently a mental disorder. However, the committee working on the newest edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (otherwise known as the DSM-V) has proposed that it become one. This set off a storm of controversy from evolutionary and forensic psychologists who disagree that these urges are pathological.
>>> Regardless of whether such urges are normal, the reasons it is not OK to have sex with an 11- to 14-year-old individual have to do with the imbalance of power and the high possibility of abuse. <<<
Kids that age are at a very vulnerable time in their life, when they are trying to deal with becoming sexual beings and figuring out how to transition into adulthood. They are very susceptible to influence, particularly from someone who is older and good at persuasion. Thus, any sexual encounter with a person vastly different in age is likely to be one-sided and almost always for the benefit of the older person. In other words, it would not be fair and the young person frequently gets hurt. This is why so many states have statutory rape laws.
Children are our very best natural resource but they are fragile and deserve our protection. Having sexual urges toward young people may be ‘normal’ but acting on them is not. Every healthy sexual encounter should involve the consent of all parties involved and this means that the person giving consent must be fully able to do so. Young people are still developing their cognitive capabilities so they often make poor decisions. This is why they are not legally allowed to give consent."
Is Hebephilia Normal?
It seems that hebephilia is not uncommon. Indeed, some say it makes evolutionary sense in that women's highest levels of fertility are before the age of 20.Ask the Psychologist
🍵 holly
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Army Launches Detachment 201: Executive Innovation Corps to Drive Tech Transformation
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in reply to Aral Balkan • • •This is all ramping up, real quick.
#TrumpDictatorship #fascism
Thomas Sturm
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •This goes both ways. It's much harder for these clowns to quit the Army than it is to switch companies. And the supreme commander can now force them to do things, even if they think it's a stupid idea.
Good luck to these assholes.
ClaraBlackInk
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •I have concerns that the current "freeing LA" nonsense is a bit of shock doctrine to lead the way to the Techno States ( theguardian.com/us-news/ng-int… )
Their (some DOGE guys) earlier involvement in releasing dam water felt weird and off. The current escalation seems related. Especially since there are constant rumblings online about how California should leave (which feels bot driven as well as organically parroted).
Feels like priming people to accept tech oligarchs swooping in.
The rise of end times fascism
Naomi Klein (The Guardian)arrbee
in reply to Aral Balkan • • •As already pointed out, they will now be subject to orders from the US forces hierarchy, so ultimately from whoever is running the White House.
The products of those companies where these guys have majority control will be used to further the aims of the US government the same way as happens for similar organisations in China and Russia.