Girls or boys?

[WavesInEternity]

I notice there are as many pedophiles in this community as there are hebephiles.

This demonstrates that many hebephiles don't feel the need to take part in sexually deviant communities.

I don't have any hard data to back this up, but I'd surmise that the main reason for that is that hebephiles are more likely to be non-exclusive, i.e. they can be attracted to some adults with high neoteny.

Being preferentially hebephilic myself, I'm over 99% attracted to minors and under 1% attracted to adults... but there are indeed a few adults I find attractive, as some 20-year-old girls can have the phenotype and key psychoemotional features of 14-year-olds.

However, I can imagine that if those percentages were, say, 90% and 10% respectively, I might well not be here.

[Jim Burton]

Perhaps even more specifically, their non-exclusivity is normative-adjacent, so they can get along. A lot of them probably count themselves among the mainstream - in my experience the gay dating community includes a lot of "twinks only" and "trans only" I suspect to be hebephiles. I'm sure the straight equivalent exists, and may in fact be even more normalised from what I see on Instagram.