In comments to the various posts about Mark Foley's resignation people are discussing pedophilia and whether or not Mark Foley is a pedophile, a homosexual, or some combination thereof. In reality, Foley is probably a regular homosexual with a twist of ephebophila.
Ephebophilia has been defined as a sexual preference in which an adult is primarily or exclusively sexually attracted to postpubescent adolescents. It comes from the Greek: έφηβος (ephebos) variously defined as "one arrived at puberty", "a youth of 18 who underwent his dokimasia and was registered as a citizen (Athens)", and "arriving at man's estate"; and φιλία (-philia) "love". Despite this classical etymology it is a term of recent coinage, created by psychologist John Money in the late twentieth century. ...It is used in contrast with pedophilia, which is an attraction to pre-pubescent or pubescent individuals.
I'm not sure if this makes Foley better, worse, or the same as before, but considering that historically average marriage ages in the mid-teens were fairly common it doesn't seem to me that ephebophilia is as aberrant as pedophilia.
