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I found this Reddit thread where posters discuss ephebophilia and hebephilia.

https://www.reddit.com/r/psychologyofse ... onsidered/

https://www.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosome ... _to_girls/

Would the professor stop at 18 if 17 was the age of consent?

Plus, you need to actually talk about what ephebophilia is. It's attraction to the body proportions of a teenager. 18 year olds are teenagers. Sure it's legal to fuck an 18 year old. It's still gross and in my professor example, unethical, and there are still millions of academics doing it, that never want to be punished for it.

I find it unsettling that there are people who consider having sex with 18-year-olds as something “disgusting”, when it seems to me that adolescence is known as the age group people are most attracted to. So consequently, for someone particularly sensitive to the law, 18 should be about the peak of their interest—at least aesthetically.

Sometimes I get the impression that some people actually feel disgust toward old age, and what truly repulses them is the idea of imagining an “old” person having sex. They’re so disgusted by it that they want these people to have sex only with other old people. A sort of gerontophobia, so strong that it even spills over toward people in their thirties.

Not Forever wrote: Tue Aug 26, 2025 3:46 am I find it unsettling that there are people who consider having sex with 18-year-olds as something “disgusting”, when it seems to me that adolescence is known as the age group people are most attracted to. So consequently, for someone particularly sensitive to the law, 18 should be about the peak of their interest—at least aesthetically.

They don't actually find it disgusting, it's performative. It's a like a student saying their dog ate their homework. It's also why any solutions suggested by people like that won't work; the answer isn't designing paper which is repellent to dogs. Students don't want to do homework, and people do want to date 18 year olds (and younger).

They know this, but they're busy gaslighting themselves into thinking sexual attraction is infinitely malleable. "If we lie enough that teenagers are unattractive, then eventually it will become true."