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Critique of Hames and Blanchard (2012), Clancy (2012), and Ryniker (2012) on Hebephilia, Anthropological Data, and Maladaptiveness

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  1. Pubescence means “having reached puberty or the age at which the sex glands have become functional but not fully mature” (http://www.biology-online.org/dictionary/Pubescence). In the West today, for example, a 14-year-old is generally still pubescent, as he or she is usually not fully sexually mature (cf. Blanchard et al., 2009). Thus, an older person’s erotic attraction or behavior with respect to a pubescent person is hebephilic.

  2. Hames and Blanchard’s cite was “Whiting et al. (2009).”

  3. Hames and Blanchard cited Table 33 as being on p. 385, but it actually appeared on pp. 284–285.

  4. In the U.S. and Canada, men are just as likely to end up in a forensic sample (e.g., that of Blanchard et al., 2009) for fondling or oral sex with pubescent girls—or just chatting sexually with them online, looking at erotic pictures of them, or even reading erotic stories about them—as they are for vaginal intercourse. All these behaviors count as “sex,” not just coitus.

  5. Notably, the difference between means of 1.30 and 1.39 for hebephiles and teleiophiles is trivial. Even though they were statistically significantly different in Blanchard’s (2010) study, the effect size of the difference was minute (r = .03), which is the appropriate metric for interpreting these results (Rind & Yuill, 2012).

  6. Schlegel (1995) was also a secondary source, as she was merely citing Whiting et al. (1986).

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Rind, B. Critique of Hames and Blanchard (2012), Clancy (2012), and Ryniker (2012) on Hebephilia, Anthropological Data, and Maladaptiveness. Arch Sex Behav 42, 685–691 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-013-0132-y

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