Dear Jesse, I like very young girls."

Still, hebephilia undoubtedly isn't rare, either, and as I've argued before, there's some reason to believe that a hebephilic orientation would have been biologically adaptive in the ancestral past. The global age-of-consent laws reveal deep cultural disagreements over when, specifically, teenagers have the mental fortitude to make their own sexual decisions. In most of the US and the UK, a person in accordance with 16 cannot legally consent to have sex with an adult. In most of Europe, 14-year-olds are of legal age; and having consensual sex with a 12-year-old in Chile probably isn't wise, nevertheless it's legal, and the government would consider it your personal business.

Psychotherapist who works mainly with teens

I am a psychotherapist who works mainly with teens. Teen girls frequently tell me about their drama and relationship problems and they blame everything on the other girls. They rarely blame the boy and this infuriates me. I recently contacted a guy that I dated once several years ago and we texted one night. I at the time spent three nights looking on all of his female friends' Facebook pages and found myself screaming at their photos on my computer, calling them sluts and whores. Why am I able to be so rational about everyone else's issues nevertheless revert to a 13-year old-mean girl when I feel insecure? Does anything in evolution explain this?

A in the near future-to-be published study by the evolutionary social psychologist Karlijn Massar and her team at The University of Groningen as well sheds light on your Jekyll-and-Hyde debacle. Your calling these strangers sluts and whores and other scandalous "oh-no-she-didn't"s is in keeping with established findings showing that intrasexual competition in women mostly is expressed as reputational warfare. Massar and her coauhors highlight recent data indicating that when an attractive woman comments disparagingly on another woman's physical appearance or mentions her sexual promiscuity, any man in earshot of this negative appraisal rates that other woman as being significantly less attractive compared to those who didn't hear these catty remarks. Nature is a bitch, nevertheless she's effective. In Massar's investigation, married and unmarried women ranging from 20 to 50 years of age were presented with the following imaginary situation: