Parthenophile

Quick meaning: Parthenophile is a noun meaning One who is sexually attracted to adolescent girls, particularly virgins.

Meaning

One who is sexually attracted to adolescent girls, particularly virgins.

Example Sentences

evolution is not 'interested': it does not proceed from the intentions of individual actors, be they scheming women or parthenophile (virgin-loving) men

So before damning Waldo Sabine, the parthenophile, I would draw your attention to an English proverb first recorded in 1670, “Eggs of an hour, fish of ten [hours], bread of a day, a woman of fifteen..."

in his 1914 magnum opus, Die Homosexualitat des Mannes und des Weibes, Hirschfeld specified the range of love objects as from "the beginning to the completion of maturity, so approximately ages 14-21." The German research estimated that 45 of all homosexuals were ephebophiles. For women, he used the term "parthenophiles."

Even for Caliban's unpeopled isle Still taunted by the fragrance of Miranda. Father Gilhooly, plump parthenophile, Peeps through the alders, praying in the while Saint Nicholas will send her comfort and a Great cuddly plush, yet somehow sentient, panda. (this also appears on page 19 of The Carleton Miscellany, Volume 9 Number 4, Fall 1968)

Word Forms

• parthenophiles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include parthenophobia, teenophile, ephebophilia, chronophile, paedophilophile, gynecophile.

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