History in Adult Human Sexual Behavior with Children and Adolescents in Western Societies

Rind, Tromovitch, and Bauserman: Politically Incorrect—scientifically Correct

“…According to Okami (1990), the victimological paradigm reflects a Victorian idealization of children as sexless innocents. This is politically correct, but is both historically incorrect (Bullough, 1990) and scientifically incorrect (Ceci & Bruck, 1995;Friedrich et al, 1991;Friedrich et al, 1998;Lamb & Coakley, 1993).…”

Hebephilia as Mental Disorder? A Historical, Cross-Cultural, Sociological, Cross-Species, Non-Clinical Empirical, and Evolutionary Review

“…Historically and cross-culturally, puberty, rather than completed sexual maturity, has generally been the criterion for nubility (i.e., when females are considered marriageable and ready for copulation) (Bullough, 1990(Bullough, , 2004. In ancient Egypt, as in the earlier Judaic and later Islamic cultures, females generally were married between ages 12 and 14 to young men, in part to prevent girls' involvementinwhatwasconsideredillicitsexinthoseculturesand in part to maximize fecundity (Redford, 2001).…”

An analysis of human sexuality textbook coverage of the psychological correlates of adult‐nonadult sex

“…This distinction has rarely been addressed in reported studies, but nevertheless is important because child-adult and adolescent-adult sex cannot be assumed to have the same correlates. Whereas the latter type of relation has been commonplace historically and crossculturally, and thus may fall within the "normal" range of human sexual behaviors, the former type has been uncommon and is thus more anomalous (Bullough, 1990). Researchers should focus more on this distinction in the future.…”