Down below the user "kratt" asked: "How big a minority are teleiosexual children?" https://www.boychat.org/messages/1500192.htm Are teleiosexual children really a minority? Some study-results make me specualte that the majority of children are generally more sexually aroused/attracted by persons in Tanner-stage 5 of pubertal development/adults than by peers. Study 1: In one US-study from 1996 103 male youth (12 to 18 years) were asked about the "age of a dating partner they would find ideally attractive". The mean age of the answers of the 13-year-old-boys was 17,2 years. Kenrick et al. (1996): Adolescents' age preferences for dating partners: support for an evolutionary model of life-history strategies. Child Development, 67 (4) 1499-1511. "209 teenagers (103 males, 106 females) ranging in age from 12 to 19 were surveyed regarding the age limits they would find acceptable in a dating partner, as well as the age of a dating partner they would find ideally attractive. Although teenage males were willing to date girls slightly younger than themselves, they indicated a much wider range of acceptability above their own ages, and also reported that their ideally attractive partners would be several years older than themselves. Preferences of teenage females were similar in pattern to those of adult females, ranging, on average, from their own age to several years older." http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8624.1996.tb01810.x/abstract Study 2: "Trachtenberg (2005) compiled anecdotes of first same-sex attractions in a sample of gay men, who had achieved celebrity status in their profession. From the 20 cases providing enough information, 18 were directed at adult men. Among these 18 cases, in the 15where their ages could be determined, the mean age of onset of the age-gap attractions was 9.73 years (SD=2.81)." Rind, Bruce (2013): Homosexual Orientation - From Nature, Not Abuse: A Critique of Roberts, Glymour, and Koenen (2013). Archives of Sexual Behavior, 42 (8) 1653-1664. |