What is the name of a "teenager molester"?

Question

My teacher said that a pedophile is someone who goes only after children or babies, and there is a different term used for someone who goes after teenagers, and I'm trying to figure that out! I get extra credit if I can find it, so please help me out. ^^

Answer 1

There are two terms, "ephebophilia" and "hebephilia", that refer to an adult attraction to POST-pubertal adolescents. So I guess you'd have to call such a person an "ephebophile" or a "hebephile".

Pedophilia does refer only to adult sexual attraction to PREpubescent children. Words do mean things, even if half the population uses the word incorrectly.

Answer 2

Its still a pedophile. Ages up to 16

Answer 3

Try a Pervert.

Answer 4

Your teacher is wrong- child molesters and pedophiles can go after ANY child, of ANY age- from birth until they reach adulthood at 18. They are still called child molesters and pedophiles- and they aren't always men. There is such a thing as a female pedophile too, though they are relatively rare.

Answer 5

google it.

Answer 6

Pedophile is an adult. teenagers are pervs. ... Cheater