Ephebophilia

[3] It has been used in publications by Dutch psychologist Frits Bernard in 1950,[4] and reprinted in 1960 in the gay support magazine Vriendschap under the pseudonym Victor Servatius,[5] crediting the origin of the term to Magnus Hirschfeld with no exact date given.

[6] The word was in fact first published in French (éphébophilie), from Georges Saint-Paul's 1896 book, Tares et Poisons: Perversion et Perversité Sexuelles.

[10] Although ephebophilia is not a psychiatric diagnosis,[2] the term pedophilia is commonly used by the general public and the media, at least in the English-speaking world, to refer to any sexual interest by significantly older adults in minors below the local age of consent, regardless of their level of physical or mental development.

"[10] Psychiatrist and sexologist Fred Berlin states that most men can find persons in this age group sexually attractive, but that "of course, that doesn't mean they're going to act on it.

[2] Blanchard et al. stated that hebephilia, erotic interest which centers on young pubescents, has not come into widespread use, even among professionals who work with sex offenders, and may have been confused with the term ephebophilia, which denotes a preference for older adolescents.