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Post A Reply Login Name: Password: Message Icon:                                                                       Message: HTML is not enabled. UBB Code™ is enabled. [QUOTE]Originally posted by Heather: [QB] I'm afraid I still couldn't come up with anything in terms of resources: have you asked the therapist you talk with about this? I mean, I can certainly think of some academic resources that talk about adult-to-teen attraction and ehebephilia, but they're not what I'd call self-help resources, but academic and psychological studies or addresses of the issue. That all said, what I'd say is that what we know is that it's typical for people to feel attraction to people who have physical markers of sexual maturity. This issue with this kind of attraction really has more to do with -- and it seems clear you already know this -- gross imbalances of power due to differences in legal rights and agency than anything else. In other words, a person who experiences this attraction, all the more so when a teen really isn't that far outside their age group and when that person's range of attraction also includes those their own age or of other ages, not exclusively teens -- isn't likely a person any sex therapist would suggest is unusual. [/QB][/QUOTE]

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