https://www.apa.org/monitor/2012/12/jn
”Is that 'normal' behavior?”
” The key issue in United States v. Hamelin was whether the diagnosis of hebephilia is an appropriate basis for civil commitment. Sexually violent predator commitment statutes allow certain high-risk sex offenders to be indefinitely committed at the end of their prison sentence, and a diagnosis of pedophilia regularly satisfies the "mental illness, abnormality or disorder" requirement in these laws. In Hamelin, however, a government expert ruled out pedophilia, defined as an erotic preference for children age 13 or under. The expert argued that the record did not support a pedophilia diagnosis because Hamelin did not have recurrent, intense sexual urges, fantasies or behaviors involving pre-pubescent minors.
The expert testifying for Hamelin agreed that he was not a pedophile. Instead, Hamelin's attraction was to post-pubescent minors. The judge decided that such an attraction was not clearly and convincingly a "serious mental illness, abnormality or disorder." Despite the fact that Hamelin's sexual interests, if acted on, might violate the law, the judge noted that sexual attraction to pubescent minors is not considered inherently deviant. Given testimony that characterized hebephilia as a contested diagnosis, the court found it to be inappropriate to predicate civil commitment on a condition that is not formally recognized in the DSM-IV-TR (though it may be included in the DSM-5).
Most of the mental health community would argue that sexual relationships between adults and pubescent minors — particularly when there is a significant age difference between the two — is exploitive of the adolescent. It is important to keep in mind the law's distinction between behaviors that are inherently wrong (as judged by society) and those that are wrong because they are against the law. In the United States, acting on an attraction to pubescent minors is illegal, though in other industrialized countries the age of sexual consent is 14. But sexual preference for pubescent minors need not be pathologized to be legitimately proscribed by law, and some have expressed concern that "the alleged diagnosis paraphilia not otherwise specified, hebephilia, arose, not out of psychiatry, but rather to meet a perceived need in the correctional system" (Frances & First, 2011).”
Nu råkar jag varken vara pedofil eller hebefil själv. Däremot för jurisprudens. Men det florerar massa självutnämnde ”experter” här i tråden som vräker ur sig det ena korkade påståendet efter det andra.