The problems with DD being gay

[colebiancardi]

No: HPFGUIDX 178312

Lee Kaiwen <leekaiwen at ...> wrote:
 
> > 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.
> 

colebiancardi:

as wiki points out, this term is full of issues and its research
methods - hence my TOTAL disregard with wiki's defination.  Sometimes
being able to look things up quickly isn't the same as actually
getting to the real meaning behind the word.  Wiki is great, but you
have to look at who has been editing this term and look at the
discussion behind it.

I am interested in why someone would think that DD has this condition
and what that term means to them.  The only interest DD had with
another male was GG and that WAS age-appropriate.  It was not the
Foley scandel as others pointed out.

DD never exhibited, IMHO, any inappropriate behavior toward the young
males at Hogwarts.  He exhibited normal behavior and concerns towards
all the youngsters there.  

Just because DD is gay doesn't mean he lusts after young teens.  And I
don't believe that is what JKR intended for anyone to get out of her
declaration that DD is gay.  

colebiancardi
(who is washing her hands of this thread)