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  • adjective Pertaining to ephebophilia or an ephebophile

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Examples

  • I dearly love the various Top Ten series Beyond the Farthest Precinct excepted, but I've always been a little surprised that the ephebophilic romance here and the positive depictions of incest in Smax and bestiality in the original series have passed with so little comment.

    TOP 10: THE FORTY-NINERS America's Best Comics, 2005 David Campbell 2006

  • I know that the novel was not developed in Arabic during the Ottoman era, though there were some stories about what people did, so that the overwhelming reliance on prescriptive (juridical) texts and rarefied (perfumed) ephebophilic verse could have been supplemented.

    Epinions Recent Content for Home 2010

  • Thereafter, Polanski gave an interview in which he excused his behavior by saying that his ephebophilic urges were universal to men: "Everyone wants to fuck young girls," he told his interviewer, probably adding to the court's concern that his behavior was continuing and would continue.

    Megan Carpentier: Roman Polanski, And The Making Of A Legend 2009

  • but I've always been a little surprised that the ephebophilic romance here and the positive depictions of incest in Smax and bestiality in the original series have passed with so little comment.

    TOP 10: THE FORTY-NINERS America's Best Comics, 2005 David Campbell 2006

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