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They also find that their victimizers, whom they identify as ephebophiles, more susceptible to therapy and thus more likely to be treatable.
Priests and Boys: An Exchange Hirsch, David 2002
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To say that ephebophiles/pedophiles are not psychopaths is like saying that rapists aren't antisocial.
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If that were true, pedophiles/ephebophiles wouldn't tend to exclusively choose their victims from just one gender or the other.
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And the movie itself seems to be geared towards ephebophiles, something suitable for the men caught on Dateline: To Catch a Predator.
Archive 2008-04-13 papabear 2008
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COOPER: Keith, I have interviewed a convicted pedophiles and ephebophiles, and all have struck me as incredibly manipulative.
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This gives Graf and Hastert a chance to compare notes on how to deal with ephebophiles in their organizations.
Archive 2006-10-01 2006
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Gay has nothing to do with his mental condition; as roughly the same number of pedophiles and ephebophiles are heterosexual or homosexual.
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Gay has nothing to do with his mental condition; as roughly the same number of pedophiles and ephebophiles are heterosexual or homosexual. '
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It is not, as he maintains, that ephebophiles should be lumped with pedophiles.
Priests and Boys: An Exchange Hirsch, David 2002
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Nor do I think that they would be impressed by his vain (in both senses of the word) display of linguistic analy - sis suggesting that no distinction should be made between those adults, whether heterosexual or homosexual, who are psychosexually attracted to prepubescents (pedophiles) and those attracted to postpubescent minors (ephebophiles).
Priests and Boys: An Exchange Hirsch, David 2002
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