''Hebephilia is a Crime, Not a Mental Disorder''

Here's an interesting opinion piece - hebephilia is both natural and wrong, apparently

Hebephilia is a Crime, Not a Mental Disorder
By Allen Frances, MD

Psychiatric Times, USA: 15 December 2011

The DSM-5 Sexual Disorders Work Group has originated 3 poorly conceived proposals. Fortunately, 2 have already been rejected - rape will not be a mental disorder and there will not be a diagnosis for hypersexuality (aka, sex addiction). But the Work Group has not yet given up on "Hebephilia." The term was invented to describe men with persistent sexual urges for pubescent youngsters - in contrast to Pedophilia, which is restricted to urges for prepubescent children.
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"Hebephilia" is a simply terrible idea. The basic issue is that sexual attraction to pubescent youngsters is not the slightest bit abnormal or unusual. Until recently, the age of consent was age 13 years in most parts of the world (including the United States) and it remains 14 in many places. Evolution has programmed humans to lust for pubescent youngsters - our ancestors did not get to live long enough to have the luxury of delaying reproduction.
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It is natural and no sign of mental illness to feel sexual attraction to pubescent youngsters. But to act on such impulses is, in our society, a reprehensible crime that deserves severe punishment. The proper disposition for those who break the law and selfishly violate the innocence of the vulnerable is prison - not a mental hospital.
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