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Gerontophilia vs Sexuoerotic - What's the difference?

gerontophilia | sexuoerotic |

As a noun gerontophilia

is love of, or (especially) sexual attraction toward, the elderly.

As an adjective sexuoerotic is

pertaining to sex and erotic arousal.

gerontophilia

English

(wikipedia gerontophilia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Love of, or (especially) sexual attraction toward, the elderly.

    • Related terms

    * gerontophile

    sexuoerotic

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Pertaining to sex and erotic arousal.
  • * 1987 , John Money, "Homosexual Gender Identity and Psychoneuroendocrinology", in American Psychologist'', volume 42, issue 4, pages 384–399, as reprinted in Stella Chess, Alexander Thomas, and Margaret Hertzig (editors), ''Annual Progress in Child Psychiatry and Child Development, 1988: A Selection of the Year's Outstanding Contributions to the Understanding and Treatment of the Normal and Disturbed Child , Brunner/Mazel Publishers (1988), ISBN 0876305389, page 41,
    • As in subhuman primates, in the human species sexuoerotic status is dependent not only on prenatal homonalization, but also on postnatal socialization effects.
  • * 2007 , Adrian Powell, Paedophiles, Child Abuse, and the Internet: A Practical Guide to Identification, Action, and Prevention , Radcliffe Publishing, ISBN 978-1-85775-774-3, page 6,
    • Chronophiles]] are persons of any age whose sexuoerotic' ages is incongruous with their physical age, yet is harmonious with the age of their chosen sexual partner/preference. [[chronophilia, Chronophilia is not related in any way to paedophilia, hebephilia, ephebophilia, gerontophilia or teleiophilia as individuals who possess these sexual orientations have congruent physical and ' sexuoerotic ages and generally have a preference for people of a different physical age.