History Main / Ephebophile

* Inverted in ''Leon'', ''The Crush'', and to a lesser extent, ''Pitch Black'': Young girls becoming obsessed with older guys.

* {{American Beauty}}, the protagonist has some pretty intense feelings for his teenaged daughter's friend, Angela

Can often lead to TheJailBaitWait.

A person sexually attracted to late-adolescent minors. [[YouKeepUsingThatWord Not to be confused with]] (and it invariably will be) a pedophile, who is attracted to prepubescent minors (or hebephile, who is attracted to early adolescent minors). Partly this is because pedophiles like to use this term to defend themselves by deliberately blurring the lines between discussion of pedophilia and issues relating to age of consent (see also {{Lolicon}}/{{Shotacon}}).

* In March Laumer's [[TheWonderfulwizardOfOz Oz books]], the Shaggy Man is attracted to teenaged girls.

* In the Glee pilot, we learn that the original head of the Glee Club Sandy Ryerson was fired for inappropriately touching one of the male club members.
* In the 30Rock episode Plan B, Pete Hornberger used to be a substitute teacher, and mentions his frustrations about being attracted to sexually mature students.

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** Thankfully for everyone (except the person in question), he seems more fixated on Kaorin than anyone else.
** He's kind of funny case, in that he's definitely a creepy pervert, but also happily married to a wonderful woman. It doesn't seem that he'd ever go beyond casual peeping and highly inappropriate comments, though those are creepy enough in their own right.

** To be fair, however, this has always been kind of ambiguous, relying to some extent or other on supplementary materials--Char may have been in love with Lalah [[OedipusComplex (in some sense of the word)]], but their relationship isn't necessarily depicted as sexual in the original ''MobileSuitGundam'', and in the flashback in Zeta that shows Haman and Char together, they both look the same age they do in the present, with Haman clearly an adult. The spinoff manga ''Char's Deleted Affair'' seems to be the source that suggests Haman was a schoolgirl when she met Char. And to top it all off, Gyunei had a perfectly valid reason to ''lie'' to Quess there, seeing as he wants her himself.

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* In both film adaptions of {{Lolita}}, wherein the titular character's age is changed from twelve to fifteen, in order to make the film tamer. Nabokov supported this change, saying that it would be inhumane to use such a young actress to tell the story.

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* In March Laumer's [[TheWonderfulwizardOfOz Oz books]], the Shaggy Man is attracted to teenaged girls.

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* Subtext (with ShipTease) in ''TrueGrit'' with Mattie and La Boeuf. Nothing achtually happens although some scenes seem to move from BelligerentSexualTension at first and then a milder UnexpressedSexualTension. [[ValuesDissonance Keep in mind that in the 1800s fourteen was not considered unmarriagable]].

* Subtext (with ShipTease) in ''TrueGrit'' with Mattie and La Boeuf. Nothing achtually happens although some scenes seem to have an awakard semi-romantic tension between them.

* Subtext (with ShipTease) in ''TrueGrit'' with Mattie and La Boeuf. Nothing achutually happens although some seems have an awakard semi-romantic tension between them.

* Subtext (with ShipTease) in ''TrueGrit'' with Mattie and La Boeuf.

** When we see Haman acting and looking so ''very'' {{moe}} in ''[[http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Mobile_Suit_Gundam:_Char%27s_Deleted_Affair:_Portrait_Of_Young_Comet Char's Deleted Affair]]'' (like [[http://actionfiguretoys.guidestobuy.com/gundam-mobil-suit-haman-karn-resin-statue-17-scale this]] and [[http://www.interney.net/blogs/maximumcosmo/2009/07/28/gundam_chars_deleted_affair_concluida/ this]] show), it's not hard to see why people believe Char to be like this. She even wears ZettaiRyouiki and GirlishPigtails, ffs.

The age of consent varies from country to country and often region by region within a country, which further [[ValuesDissonance muddles the issue]]. However, even in countries where statutory rape laws do not exist or apply only for much younger age groups, some claim the difference is just sophistry. Also, keep in mind there are plenty of teens who can pass for being older, and it's hardly uncommon for people in their 20s to get mistaken for teenagers.

* Slade of ''TeenTitans'' is seen as this. Having canonically had sex with Terra in the comics, his obsession over Robin and the um...[[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything scene where he tore off Raven's cape]] in "Birthmark" and how every time he grabbed her in the same episode her clothes would disappear, don't do anything at all to discredit it.

** Is it appropriate to point out that the [[ValuesDissonance age of consent is 16]] [[SoCalization in Rhode Island]]?
*** To refute this Trope? No. To discuss the standards people usually hold themselves to based on state and federal laws? Yes.

* In the {{Discworld}} country of Ephebe, a FantasyCounterpartCulture of ancient Greece (specifically Athens). Although technically, Ephebes were 16-year-old guys who served as a sort of "national guard" for Athens, the name is also a likely allusion to the ancient Greek proclivity for young men.

The age of consent varies from country to country and often region by region within a country, which further [[ValuesDissonance muddies the issue]]. However, even in countries where statutory rape laws do not exist or apply only for much younger age groups, some claim the difference is just sophistry.

** And there's Orochimaru, who can possibly be read as an ephebophile, since he (literally) wants Sasuke's body, and has an obsession with the bodies of teenagers in general. Not to mention how he ends up breaching the personal space of ''a lot'' of people younger than him while making some rather questionable comments about them as well as randomly caressing their faces.
*** With his tongue no less.

**** Complete baloney, he doesn't want to fuck them, he wants to steal their bodies and a body with a longer lifespan left isn't that bad.

** Moral of the story is: while ephebophilia is bad, it could be much, much worse.

* Papa Smurf's one-time attraction to Smurfette in ''{{The Smurfs}}'' episode "Romeo And Smurfette". A situation that would have turned into an OldManMarryingAChild trope, but Smurfette even turned down her fellow Smurfs' requests to marry her, saying that she was still too young and that she loved all her fellow Smurfs equally.

** When we see Haman acting and looking so ''very'' {{moe}} in ''Char's Deleted Affair'' (like [[http://actionfiguretoys.guidestobuy.com/gundam-mobil-suit-haman-karn-resin-statue-17-scale this]] and [[http://www.interney.net/blogs/maximumcosmo/2009/07/28/gundam_chars_deleted_affair_concluida/ this]] show), it's not hard to see why people believe Char to be like this. She even wears ZettaiRyouiki and GirlishPigtails, ffs.

** To be fair, however, this has always been kind of ambiguous, relying to some extent or other on supplementary materials--Char may have been in love with Lalah [[OedipusComplex (in some sense of the word)]], but their relationship isn't necessarily depicted as sexual in the original ''MobileSuitGundam'', and in the flashback in Zeta that shows Haman and Char together, they both look the same age they do in the present, with Haman clearly an adult. The spinoff manga ''Char's Deleted Affair'' seems to be the source that suggests Haman was a schoolgirl when she met Char. And to top it all off, Gyunei had a perfectly valid reason to ''lie'' to Quess there, seeing as he wants her himself.

** 'Doesn't appear to me mentally all there' may be an understatement, [[AlternativeCharacterInterpretation depending on your interpretation.]] Dahlia could have been purposefully trying to manipulate a guy with severe special needs, who doesn't even seem to know that it's wrong to be with her.

* Papa Smurf's one-time attraction to Smurfette in ''{{The Smurfs}}'' episode "Romeo And Smurfette".

** And there's Orochimaru, who can possibly be read as a ephebophile, since he (literally) wants Sasuke's body, and has an obsession with the bodies of teenagers in general. Not to mention how he ends up breaching the personal space of ''a lot'' of people younger than him while making some rather questionable comments about them as well as randomly caressing their faces.