Am I a hebephile? Do I need help?

I'm 16 years old (Junior in high school) and undergoing some of the final stages of puberty. Very very very recently I realized that not only do woman 18+ turn me on sexually, but so do girls around the ages 13-17 (pubescent stage, around same as me). Realizing this, I've started to become extremely guilty and worried that this will carry on into the future and I might hurt someone. I say the that because the future is full of mystery and I don't know what it holds, so I tend to think extremely worst case scenario. When I look at girls around that age, I don't get automatically aroused. If I think they're cute or hot, I simply say in my head, "Hey that girl is kinda cute" or just acknowledge that I just saw a girl that was a few years younger than me, like you would acknowledge seeing a tree or another person. Same goes for woman 18+. I don't purposefully look for girls around 13-17 years of age to have sexual relations with nor do I talk to younger girls with the intention in mind (if we ever even have to talk in the first place). I want to believe that it's just my hormones, but I'm extremely afraid of having this carry over to when I become older and I REALLY need to start needing help. People (we don't hang out anymore) have shown me pictures ranging from pubescent girls and I did get really turned on when I saw several of them (The part that REALLY ashames me is the fact that a few of them were prepubescent). I've been jacking off to 18+ adult movies for a few years now, and finally seeing nude girls my age or younger really got me excited. To be honest, if a hot freshman wanted to have sex with me, I wouldn't say no. I really don't want to feel bad for the rest of my life, but I don't want to be some (possibly pedophile)/hebephile creep either. What am I? Am I in danger of having some mental disorder? Is it just the hormones? I really just want to be normal. I'm hoping that throughout time I'll be attracted to girls my age constantly (like if I'm 23, I'll be attracted to woman in their 20s). I am attracted to girls generally my age today, but I don't want to be stuck being sexually attracted to them for the rest of my life. I'm extremely scared and stressed that this might be the case.

Sorry for the cluttered mess. I've been feeling guilty for the past several days and I have a lot of questions and fears I need people other than myself to help answer. Maybe I'm paranoid and overt hinking everything too much. But I need more opinions than myself to qualify that. Thank you.

dotharightthing wrote: I'm hoping that throughout time I'll be attracted to girls my age constantly (like if I'm 23, I'll be attracted to woman in their 20s).

I'm not sure it works like that. It's in a males nature to be attracted to females when they're young and fertile. 13-17 year old girls are hardly pubescent. Most females finish the vast majority of their development by 13.

It's unreasonable to expect that you're going to lose physical attraction to fully or mostly developed female bodies just because of the number on their birth certificate.

I believe the most accurate term for you is ephebephile not hebephile. That's only if you prefer the age range that you specified though.

dotharightthing wrote:Very very very recently I realized that not only do woman 18+ turn me on sexually, but so do girls around the ages 13-17 (pubescent stage, around same as me).

That's utterly normal. It's only in the past century or so that men haven't been marrying girls that young. Do you think they did so with no attraction to them, just hoping their brides would flourish and become properly attractive?

The plight guys on here are facing appears to me, is that you guys are more governed by evolutionary hang ups. What I mean by that, is that puberty is nature's signal for fertility. Thus and inbuilt biological mechanism must exist to recognize this. There seems to me to be some difference between the male who is able to focus on love and sex with any age, and the male who concentrates on these signals.

Could it be that the hebaphile has some more of whatever thing that he is more sensitive to nature's signals?

You're still young. Don't get worried about that. It is perfectly normal to find pubescent girls attractive, and you're talking about 13 years old. I wouldn't worry so much since you're still 16.

Please don't be worried about your sexuality, there's no need to. You sound perfectly normal to me.

The thing that ashames me is that one was a gif of probably an 8-10 year old giving oral fellatio to an older man and I still maintained my initial level of interest. Maybe I was interested just because it was something sexual, but it got me worried after I reflected on what I did a few hours after the fact...
The image keeps popping back up in my head, but I get extremely guilty when it does. Maybe I'm traumatized or maybe I need help.
Please keep posting encouragement or what you think of all this. I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that I might be paranoid, but these loose ends keep making me doubt myself..

dotharightthing wrote:The thing that ashames me is that one was a gif of probably an 8-10 year old giving oral fellatio to an older man and I still maintained my initial level of interest. Maybe I was interested just because it was something sexual, but it got me worried after I reflected on what I did a few hours after the fact...
The image keeps popping back up in my head, but I get extremely guilty when it does. Maybe I'm traumatized or maybe I need help.
Please keep posting encouragement or what you think of all this. I'm starting to come to terms with the fact that I might be paranoid, but these loose ends keep making me doubt myself..

I wouldn't get worried. It was just one gif, and your response could have been related to the fact it was something sexual, not necessarily linked to pedophilia. If you feel guilty and ashamed, chances are that you just had an automatic reaction not linked to your actual sexual attractions.
Have you considered the possibility of speaking to a professional about it? It sounds like the experience affected you negatively.

dotharightthing wrote:Maybe I'm paranoid and overt hinking everything too much. But I need more opinions than myself to qualify that. Thank you.

Like almost everyone else, whatever you may think or feel inside, you will marry a woman who is two to five years younger than you, you'll work some job, have a few kids, then retire and play golf. That's about how it goes for the 99%. Maybe you'll be among those rare individuals who are free thinking and free living, who do something a little different than the rest... but that's unlikely. (By the way, since child pornography is probably illegal in whatever country you live in, and the mods and admins of this site like to report IPs to the police, you shouldn't confess in writing to viewing it.)

theclouds, that wasn't a helpful reply.
Also, what do you mean by "mods and admins like to report IPs to the police"?. I'm sure they do a great job and only report if necessary.

Again, I do not own or have the pictures. I only saw them from some other someone who wanted to show me. I do not have the possession of ANY CP of any kind.
Thanks for the replies. I think the experience was traumatizing and effected my negatively as someone did suggest earlier.