Rural Dictionary

Pedophilia

An ongoing exclusive attraction to prepubescents from ages 3-10 and in some cases up to 13 depending on the stage of the Tanner scale of human development being used. (Many 14 or 15-year-old's would not be
pubescent/reached puberty, i.e., in stages 2 or 3 of dev; many would instead be in stage 4, and a few may be in stage 5.)

It should not be confused with the other age-based paraphilias (also called chronophilias):

Chronophilia| preferred age range | prevalence

Nepiophilia | infants 2-3 | 1% or less
Pedophilia | prepubescents 3-10 | 5%
Hebephilia | pubescents from ages 11-14 | 16-20%
Ephebophilia | post-pubescents from the ages 15-17 (late teens) and sometimes up to 19 | 20%
Teleiophilia | young adults in their 20's and 30's; Tanner stage 5 | most common
Mesophilia | middle-aged adults in their 40's and 50's | uncommon

Prevalence rates are only for males and are based on a combination of studies and phallometric research.

These refer to attractions to people of an age range, not the act of sex or romance with people in those ranges.
Most pedophiles never actually engage in sexual contact with prepubescents; the rate of how many do varies but many journals put an est. at 5-20%.

It may also surprise people to know that most adults who sexually engage with prepubescents or pubescents aren't even pedophiles/hebephiles or primarily attracted to them.

Also, few non-pedophiles and non-hebephiles engage in contact.
Furthermore, most contact is statutory, not forceful.

Age of the contactor has very little impact on whether they do than their personality. All who made contact were likely to do this as children and teens as well.

They can also overlap; you can have more than one:

pedohebephilia
hebeteleiophilia

etc.

So just as some people are equally attracted to both males + females, some are equally attracted to post-pubescents and adults, etc.

A hebephile, etc. isn't any more prone to 'seeking' for sex or romance than a teleiophile is. Just like how most teleis naturally meet, fall in love with someone then gravitate to sex later in the relationship, most of them are the same way. Thus, other than having a different attraction, their drives are really no diff. than those of teleis. So while they are more likely to seek romance and/or sex with someone in their pref. age range, it doesn't imply that they are sex-crazed animals whose sole urge is to seek out these things out.

I've done thousands of hours of research on this and have way more to add, but there's a limit! See my profile for all references, or search on Google or Youtube for "Research on the youth-based chronophilias, my personal thoughts, citations, and more"

-Schuster, Filip, (2014) Every fifth boy and man is pedophilic or hebephilic
-Lautmann, R (1994). “Attraction...” “most contact between older and
younger people are, "not by pedophiles, but by non-pedophilic” people.

Someone with pedophilia is mainly attracted to prepubescents aged 3-10 and some cases up to 13.

by MisterMosher September 28, 2023