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[[Image:Kiss Briseis Painter Louvre G278.jpg|thumb|250px|'''An Ephebe Kisses A Man'''<br />Tondo from an Attic [[Kylix (drinking cup)|kylix]], 5th c. BCE by the Briseis painter. [[Louvre]]]]
[[Image:Michaelmarcus.jpg|thumb|right|Michael Marcus at his trading office.]]
'''Ephebophilia''' refers to the sexual preference for adolescents around 15-19 years of age.<ref name=Blanchard2008>Blanchard, R. Blanchard, R., Lykins, A. D., Wherrett, D., Kuban, M. E., Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., Dickey, R., & Klassen, P. E. (2008). Pedophilia, hebephilia, and the DSM–V. ''Archives of Sexual Behavior.'' DOI 10.1007/s10508-008-9399-9.</ref> Experts use specific terms for age preferences: ephebophilia to refer to the sexual preference for late adolescents, [[hebephilia]] to refer the sexual preference for pubescent persons, and [[pedophilia]] to refer to the sexual preference for prepubescent persons. The term ''pedophilia,'' however, has also been used colloquially to refer broadly to sexual interest in minors, regardless of their level of development.
'''Michael Marcus''' is a [[commodity market|commodities]] [[trader (finance)|trader]] who, in less than 20 years, is reputed to have turned his initial $30,000 into $80 million.<ref name=pitbull>{{cite book
| last = Schwartz
| first = Martin
| authorlink = Martin Schwartz
| coauthors =
| title = Pit Bull
| publisher = Collins
| date = 1999
| location = pp 22, 176, 179, 184, 190
| url = http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0887309569/?keywords=Michael%20Marcus&v=search-inside
| id = ISBN 0-88730-956-9 }}</ref> Marcus met his [[mentor]] [[Ed Seykota]] while working as an analyst and learned money management from him. Later while working.<ref name="nymetro">{{cite news
| last = Weiss
| first = Philip
| title = George Soros’s Right-Wing Twin
| publisher = [[New York magazine]]
| date = 2005-08-08
| url = http://www.trendfollowing.com/whitepaper/bruce-kovner.pdf
| accessdate = 2006-08-05 }}</ref> at [[Commodities Corporation]] and before becoming the company's executive vice president, he hired [[Bruce Kovner]] to be his assistant and taught Bruce the ins and outs of trading.<ref name=forbes>{{cite news
| title = Kovner, Bruce on Forbes 400
| work = Forbes 400 1999
| publisher = [[Forbes (magazine)|Forbes magazine]]
| date = 1999-10-01
| url = http://www.forbes.com/finance/lists/54/1999/LIR.jhtml?passListId=54&passYear=1999&passListType=Person&uniqueId=6OQE&datatype=Person
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>


Ephebophilia is not listed as a [[paraphilia]] in the ''[[Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition]]'' (''DSM-IV''), unlike pedophilia, which is categorized as a disorder in the manual.
==Education==
He graduated in 1969 [[Phi Beta Kappa]] from [[Johns Hopkins University|Johns Hopkins]] and obtained his [[Doctor of Philosophy|Phd]]<ref name=pitbull/> in [[Psychology]] from [[Clark University]].<ref name="nymetro"/>


==Personal==
==Etymology==
The term comes from the {{lang-el|ἔφηβος}} ''([[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 ''([[-phil-|-philia]])'' "love".<ref>Rahman, Tariq (1988). "Ephebophilia: the case for the use of a new word," ''Forum for Modern Language Studies'', 24(2), 126-141.</ref><ref>[http://www.religioustolerance.org/sex_devia.htm Human sexuality: Definitions of terms involving the sexual abuse of children], retrieved [[May 25]][[2007]]</ref> It has been used by [[Netherlands|Dutch]] psychologist and [[pro-pedophile activism|pro-pedophile activist]] [[Frits Bernard]] as far back as 1950,<ref>[http://www.nvva.nl/rijzendezon/catalogs/c00137.htm sexology<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> reprinted in 1960 in the gay support magazine ''Vriendschap'' under the pseudonym Victor Servatius,<ref>Bernard, F. (1998) ''Selected publications of Dr. Frits Bernard - An international bibliography'', Rotterdam: Enclave.</ref> also crediting it to Hirschfeld though giving no exact date.<ref>Dr. Victor Servatius (1960). ''Ephebophilie en wetenschap'' ("Ephebophilia and science"), [http://www.ihlia.nl/documents/pdflib/Vriendschap/1960/1960-04.pdf ''Vriendschap'', vol. 15, March 1960], pp. 35-35</ref>


The term has been described by [[France|Frenchman]] [[Felix Buffiere]] in 1980 and [[Pakistan]]i scholar [[Tariq Rahman]] in 1988, who argued that "''ephebophilia''" should be used in preference to "[[homosexuality]]" when describing the aesthetic and erotic interest of [[pederasty|adult men in adolescent boys]] in classical [[Persian language|Persian]], [[Turkish language|Turkish]] or [[Urdu]] literature.
At one time he was a devout follower of the [[Maharishi Mahesh Yogi]].<ref name=pitbull/> His first wife divorced him because he spent more time trading than with her. He has a mansion with a private beach overlooking the ocean in [[Malibu, California|Malibu]], [[California]]<ref name=sec1>{{cite web
| title = SEC edgar
| publisher = SEC
| date = 2006-08-06
| url = http://sec.edgar-online.com/2001/04/02/0000950116-01-000548/Section16.asp
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>
and he also has a ranch near [[Austin, Texas]].<ref name=sec2>{{cite web
| title = SEC info
| publisher = SEC
| date = 2006-08-06
| url = http://www.secinfo.com/d16J71.va.htm
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>
In the 1980s Marcus fell on his back and severely injured his lower back. For weeks after, he suffered [[Low back pain|chronic low back pain]] and discomfort in his legs, for which he was diagnosed with [[lumbar]] [[disc herniation]] and a [[coccyx]] injury; he decided against surgery and chose an alternative therapy. He claims to have found pain relief through [[Prolotherapy]] treatments and ''IVSAAT'' therapy. Delighted with the results he funded the program to build the ''CAM Research Institute''.<ref name=cam>{{cite web
| title = CAM Research Institute
| work = About us, How we got started
| date = 2006-08-06
| url = http://www.camresearch.com
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>


==Career==
==Characteristics==
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Attraction to adolescents is not generally regarded by [[psychologist]]s as [[pathological]] except when it interferes with other relationships, becomes an [[Obsessive-compulsive disorder|obsession]] which adversely affects other areas of life, or causes distress to the subject.
Marcus began his trading career in 1972, when he took his whole life savings of $700 and bought plywood futures. In the summer of 1972 President [[Richard Nixon]] froze prices of some commodities like wood, but the futures contracts went sky high and Michael turned his $700 into $12,000. He would repeat the feat in 1973, turning $24,000 into $64,000.<ref name=cam>{{cite web
| last = Sjuggerud
| first = Dr Steve
| title = The "Five Years 'Til Tragedy" Rule
| publisher = The daily Reckoning UK
| date = 2003-12-11
| url = http://www.dailyreckoning.co.uk/article/11122003.html
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref> He also used [[Freight derivative]]s.


Sexual desire that includes adolescents, as well as older individuals, is common among adults of all [[sexual orientation]]s;<ref name="www.usccb.org">{{cite web |first=Frederick|last=S. Berlin|title=Interview with Frederick S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D.| publisher=Office of Media Relations |accessdate=2008-06-27 |url=http://www.usccb.org/comm/kit6.shtml}}</ref> this is not labeled "ephebophilia" because the attraction to adolescents is not exclusive. In some cultures, such as those in which adolescent girls are routinely married to older men, it is considered normal for adults to include adolescents among their sexual interests. In these cultures an attraction to adolescents is not necessarily thought to require an [[essentialism|essentialist]] classification in terms of abnormality, deviancy or mental health, but is seen as a possibility or a taste.
While at Commodities Corporation he hired [[Bruce Kovner]] as a trader.<ref name="nymetro"/> As the firm's leading currency trader, Marcus had to wake up every two hours throughout the night to check the markets, which had the negative consequence of ending his first marriage.<ref name=redpepper>{{cite news
| last = Griffiths
| first = Jay
| coauthors =
| title = Colonising the night
| work =
| pages =
| language =
| publisher = [[Red Pepper (magazine)|Red Pepper magazine]]
| date =
| url = http://www.redpepper.org.uk/cularch/xmayday.html
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>
As a founding trader of the firm, Marcus rose through the ranks at Commodities Corporation eventually becoming an EVP. Marcus has recently diversified by investing in small-company stock through his holding company Canmarc Trading Co and later made private-placement investments in small [[OTC Bulletin Board]] listed companies like Prospector Consolidated Resources<ref name=sec3>{{cite web
| title = SEC edgar
| publisher = SEC
| date = 2006-08-06
| url = http://sec.edgar-online.com/2000/05/31/13/0000950116-00-001369/Section4.asp
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>
and Encore Clean Energy Inc<ref name=sec4>{{cite web
| title = SEC edgar
| publisher = SEC
| date = 2006-08-06
| url = http://sec.edgar-online.com/2000/05/31/13/0000950116-00-001369/Section4.asp
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}</ref>
and [[Pink Sheets]] Touchstone Resources.


==See also==
ViRexx Medical Corp, a company focused on [[immunotherapy]] treatments for certain [[cancer]]s, [[Hepatitis B|chronic hepatitis B]] and [[Hepatitis C|C]], and [[embolotherapy]] treatments for [[tumor]]s, announced Marcus's election to its [[Board of Directors]] at its [[Annual general meeting|Annual General Meeting]] held May 25, 2006.
*[[Age disparity in sexual relationships]]
*[[Ephebiphobia]]
*[[Hebephilia]]
*[[Pederasty]]
*[[Jailbait]]
*"[[Lolita (term)|Lolita]]", after [[Vladimir Nabokov|Nabokov]]'s novel ''[[Lolita (novel)|Lolita]]'' is used for female teenagers seen as the object of desire of older men.


== Endnotes, references and sources ==
==Quotes==

In the words of Thomas A Bass, in the book ''The Predictors: How a Band of Maverick Physicists Used Chaos Theory to Trade Their Way to a Fortune on Wall Street.''<ref name=predict>{{cite book
| last = Bass
| first = Thomas A.
| title = The Predictors
| publisher = Owl Books; Reprint edition
| date = 2000
| location = p 220
| url = http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0805057579/
| id = ISBN 0-8050-5757-9 }}</ref>

{{cquote|One was Michael Marcus, a former trader at the New York Cotton Exchange, who went on to become one of the world's biggest currency speculators. He made a fortune in gold and another fortune in cocoa before moving into trading tanker rates and other indices in the shipping industry. He parlayed a thirty-thousand-dollar stake into an eighty-million-dollar fortune. He owned ten houses in ''every beautiful place in the world,'' many of which he had never slept in.
His wife left him, but Marcus was too busy to notice. Trading from a beachside
mansion in California, he was waking up every two hours throughout the night to place three-hundred-million-dollar bets on currency markets in Australia, Hong Kong, Zurich, and London. His secret? Marcus is a chartist. He is a trend follower who keeps an eye on market penetration and resistance. }}

== Notes ==
{{reflist}}
{{reflist}}
* Ames, A. & Houston, D.A. "Legal, social, and biological definitions of pedophilia." ''Archives of Sexual Behavior'', vol. 19, 1990, pp. 333-342.
* Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.) [http://williamapercy.com/pub-EncyHom.htm ''Encyclopedia of Homosexuality.''] New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1990.
* Percy, William A. [http://williamapercy.com/pub-Peder.htm ''Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece''], Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
* Rahman, Tariq. "Boy-Love in the Urdu Ghazal", ''Annual of Urdu Studies'', Vol. 7 (1990), pp. 1-20.


[[Category:Adolescence]]
==References==
[[Category:Sexuality and age]]
=== Books ===
[[Category:Pederasty]]
<div class="references-small">
[[Category:Youth]]
{{cite book
| last = Schwager
| first = Jack D.
| authorlink = Jack D. Schwager
| title = Technical Analysis
| publisher = Wiley
| date = 1995
| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0471020516&id=h0AfBRLrkJYC&pg=PA755&lpg=PA755&dq=%22Michael+Marcus%22+futures&sig=bnNGI-hAl6wdEAkjLhED4NExrNY
| id = ISBN 0-471-02051-6 }}

{{cite book
| last = Rosenblum
| first = Irwin
| title = Up, Down, Up, Down, Up
| publisher = Xlibris Corporation
| date = 2003
| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN1413416845&id=F4Ya3DUMifYC&pg=PA71&lpg=PA71&dq=%22Michael+Marcus%22+futures&sig=gK9fDLT93lYLNv1uEY2fA8m2OQE
| id = ISBN 1-4134-1685-3 }}

{{cite book
| last = Banks
| first = Ferdinand E.
| title = Global Finance and Financial Markets: A Modern Introduction
| publisher = World Scientific Publishing ( Hardcover)
| date = 2001
| location = p 79
| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN9810243278&id=ZMREFuig1yoC&pg=PA79&lpg=PA79&dq=%22Michael+Marcus%22+futures&sig=_iLaEVVROTFn3dyEGkCv28UaO94
| id = ISBN 981-02-4326-X }}

{{cite book
| last = Vaga
| first = Tonis
| title = Profiting from Chaos
| publisher = Mcgraw-Hill
| date = 1994
| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0070667861&id=hjUMHEHpp38C&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124&dq=Profiting+from+Chaos:+Using+Chaos+Theory+for+Market+Timing,+Stock+Selection,+and+Option+Valuation+Michael+Marcus&sig=3DsyIsmHZaSdB9GAkaAwFzZVeSo
| id = ISBN 0-07-066786-1 }}

{{cite book
| last = Mieg
| first = Harald A.
| title = The Social Psychology of Expertise
| publisher = LEA, Inc
| date = 2001
| location = page 124
| url = http://books.google.co.uk/books?vid=ISBN0805837507&id=8TPLr5MxPyUC&pg=PA117&lpg=PA117&dq=%22Michael+marcus%22+trader&sig=xVmlYY6RvM0FOuOb4Mod1LEcVb4
| id = ISBN 0-8058-3750-7 }}

{{cite book
| last = Schwager
| first = Jack D.
| authorlink = Jack D. Schwager
| title = Market Wizards: Michael Marcus, Blighting Never Strikes Twice
| publisher = Marketplace Books
| date = 2006
| url = http://www.amazon.com/dp/1592802850/
| id = ISBN 1-59280-285-0 }}

</div>

==Further reading==
{{cite book
| last = Schwager
| first = Jack D.
| authorlink = Jack D. Schwager
| title = Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders
| publisher = Collins; Reissue edition
| date = 1993
| location = 48 pages
| id = ISBN 0-88730-610-1 }}

{{cite web
| title = SEC profile
| publisher =
| date = 2006-08-06
| url = http://www.secinfo.com/$/SEC/Registrant.asp?CIK=1264878&View=Registrant
| accessdate = 2006-08-06 }}


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Revision as of 15:41, 13 October 2008

This article is about the sexual preference of adults to adolescents. For the sexual preference of adults to prepubescent children, see Pedophilia.
An Ephebe Kisses A Man
Tondo from an Attic kylix, 5th c. BCE by the Briseis painter. Louvre

Ephebophilia refers to the sexual preference for adolescents around 15-19 years of age.[1] Experts use specific terms for age preferences: ephebophilia to refer to the sexual preference for late adolescents, hebephilia to refer the sexual preference for pubescent persons, and pedophilia to refer to the sexual preference for prepubescent persons. The term pedophilia, however, has also been used colloquially to refer broadly to sexual interest in minors, regardless of their level of development.

Ephebophilia is not listed as a paraphilia in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV), unlike pedophilia, which is categorized as a disorder in the manual.

Etymology

The term comes from the Greek: ἔφηβος (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".[2][3] It has been used by Dutch psychologist and pro-pedophile activist Frits Bernard as far back as 1950,[4] reprinted in 1960 in the gay support magazine Vriendschap under the pseudonym Victor Servatius,[5] also crediting it to Hirschfeld though giving no exact date.[6]

The term has been described by Frenchman Felix Buffiere in 1980 and Pakistani scholar Tariq Rahman in 1988, who argued that "ephebophilia" should be used in preference to "homosexuality" when describing the aesthetic and erotic interest of adult men in adolescent boys in classical Persian, Turkish or Urdu literature.

Characteristics

Attraction to adolescents is not generally regarded by psychologists as pathological except when it interferes with other relationships, becomes an obsession which adversely affects other areas of life, or causes distress to the subject.

Sexual desire that includes adolescents, as well as older individuals, is common among adults of all sexual orientations;[7] this is not labeled "ephebophilia" because the attraction to adolescents is not exclusive. In some cultures, such as those in which adolescent girls are routinely married to older men, it is considered normal for adults to include adolescents among their sexual interests. In these cultures an attraction to adolescents is not necessarily thought to require an essentialist classification in terms of abnormality, deviancy or mental health, but is seen as a possibility or a taste.

See also

Endnotes, references and sources

  1. ^ Blanchard, R. Blanchard, R., Lykins, A. D., Wherrett, D., Kuban, M. E., Cantor, J. M., Blak, T., Dickey, R., & Klassen, P. E. (2008). Pedophilia, hebephilia, and the DSM–V. Archives of Sexual Behavior. DOI 10.1007/s10508-008-9399-9.
  2. ^ Rahman, Tariq (1988). "Ephebophilia: the case for the use of a new word," Forum for Modern Language Studies, 24(2), 126-141.
  3. ^ Human sexuality: Definitions of terms involving the sexual abuse of children, retrieved May 252007
  4. ^ sexology
  5. ^ Bernard, F. (1998) Selected publications of Dr. Frits Bernard - An international bibliography, Rotterdam: Enclave.
  6. ^ Dr. Victor Servatius (1960). Ephebophilie en wetenschap ("Ephebophilia and science"), Vriendschap, vol. 15, March 1960, pp. 35-35
  7. ^ S. Berlin, Frederick. "Interview with Frederick S. Berlin, M.D., Ph.D." Office of Media Relations. Retrieved 2008-06-27.
  • Ames, A. & Houston, D.A. "Legal, social, and biological definitions of pedophilia." Archives of Sexual Behavior, vol. 19, 1990, pp. 333-342.
  • Dynes, Wayne R. (ed.) Encyclopedia of Homosexuality. New York and London, Garland Publishing, 1990.
  • Percy, William A. Pederasty and Pedagogy in Archaic Greece, Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1996.
  • Rahman, Tariq. "Boy-Love in the Urdu Ghazal", Annual of Urdu Studies, Vol. 7 (1990), pp. 1-20.
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