A contorted metaphor for adolescent sexual desire, perhaps?

B. D. Wong recognizes her almost adolescent desire not to have to take charge but says he has been encouraging her to do so when necessary.

Ryman sees too much of regular science fiction being based on an "adolescent desire to run away from our world."

(She attains, at least in part, her adolescent desire for "not happiness but joy.")

Were these boys the same as he had been, fired with an adolescent desire really to reform the world, as little to be taken seriously?

I think contrariness should always come from a genuine place, rather than just an adolescent desire to be the odd one out.

- say that forces larger than adolescent desire are at work.

She provides a perfect focus for all of the ambiguity of adolescent male desire, with its sad blend of longing and resentment.

I had a sudden adolescent desire to shatter that.

It casts doubt on the idea of ruling desire - that is, of the lifelong predominance of childhood or adolescent or young-adult desire.