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Date: 2011-04-11 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-04-11 07:34 pm (UTC)What it honestly comes down to is the idea of forbidden or burgeoning sexuality--there are whole reams of power dynamics and taboo ideas locked up inside ephebophilia. I'd actually go so far as to argue (possibly incorrectly) that the two are very different in how thay are expressed in a pop cultural setting. Pedophilia is presented as the individual attracted to sexual beings that happen to be pre-pubescent children. Ephebophilia is presented as an awakening (or, arguably, a corrupting) of not yet expressed sexuality.
For the most part, we see ephebophilia in the media because a.) it is less instinctively creepy then pedophilia and b.) it plays more into the sexual narrative that we in America seem to mired in.
These are just my thoughts though.