[HPforGrownups] Re: The problems with DD being gay

[Lee Kaiwen]

No: HPFGUIDX 178302

I think at this point the whole discussion needs to be moved over to 
OT_Chatter.

And I don't know why I'm jumping in here, because Del seems perfectly 
capable of defending his own views, except that I empathize with his 
predicament -- when the whole list seems to be working overtime to 
MISunderstand what he's saying.

> so, as a female, when I was a teen, I had a love of teenage(young)
> boys. Was I ephebophialic?

Ephebophilia (or hebephilia, as it's also called) is defined as sexual 
attraction to teenage boys when there is at least a five-year difference 
in age and when the sexual attraction "interferes with other 
relationships, becomes an obsession which adversely affects other areas 
of life, or causes distress to the subject." (That's from Wikipedia, 
which took me all of thirty seconds to look up.) As the Wikipedia 
article also points out, attraction to teenagers is common to adults of 
all sexual orientations; it only becomes pathological when the 
attraction becomes exclusive.

BTW, I'm not agreeing with Del here about DD. But I DO understand what 
he's saying, think he presented his arguments quite clearly, and wonder 
why anyone else is so confused about his point.

--CJ