Chronophilia

Template:Short description Chronophilia are forms of romantic preferences and/or sexual attractions limited to individuals of particular age ranges. Some such attractions, specifically those towards prepubescents and those towards the elderly, constitute types of paraphilia.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> The term was coined by John Money and has not been widely adopted by sexologists, who instead use terms that refer to the specific age range in question. An arguable historical precursor was Richard von Krafft-Ebing's concept of "age fetishism".<ref name="janssen">Template:Cite journal</ref> Importantly, chronophilia are technically not determined by age itself, but by human sexual maturity stages, such as body type, secondary sexual characteristics and other visible features, particularly as measured by the stages of the Tanner scale.<ref name="Seto_2017">Template:Cite journal</ref>

Preferences based on age

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Continuous distribution of the male chronophilic population divided by age of interest.

• Romantic and/or sexual attraction/preference to minors
  • Pedohebephilia refers to an expansion and reclassification of pedophilia and hebephilia with subgroups, proposed during the development of the DSM-5.<ref>DSM-5 U 03 Template:Webarchive</ref> It refers more broadly to sexual attractions. Under the proposed revisions, people who are dysfunctional as a result of it would be diagnosed with pedohebephilic disorder. People would be broken down into types based on the idea of being fixated on one, the other or both of the subgroups. The proposed revision was not ratified for inclusion in the final published version of DSM-5.Template:Citation needed
    • Infantophilia (sometimes called nepiophilia) is a subtype of pedophilia describing a sexual attraction on children less than 5 years old (including toddlers and infants).<ref>Template:Cite journal.</ref>
    • Pedophilia is a psychological disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a romantic and/or sexual attraction to prepubescent youth. (Around 5-12 years of age)<ref name="WHOPaedophilia">World Health Organization, International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems: ICD-10 Section F65.4: Pedophilia (online access via ICD-10 site map table of contents)</ref><ref name="Blanchard2007">Template:Cite journal</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> According to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), pedophilia is a paraphilia in which a person has intense sexual urges towards children, and experiences recurrent sexual urges towards and fantasies about children. Pedophilic disorder is further defined as psychological disorder in which a person meets the criteria for pedophilia above, and also either acts upon those urges, or else experiences distress or interpersonal difficulty as a consequence.<ref>American Psychiatric Association, Highlights of Changes from DSM-IV-TR to DSM-5 Template:Webarchive Paraphilic disorders (page 18)</ref><ref name="dsm4">Template:Cite book</ref> The diagnosis can be made under the DSM or ICD criteria for persons age 16 and older.<ref name="ICD10">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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• • Attraction to adolescents
    • Hebephilia is a romantic and/or sexual attraction on early-pubescent youths in Tanner Stages 2 and 3 (around ages 9–14).
    • Ephebophilia is a romantic/sexual attraction on late-pubescent youths in Tanner Stage 4 (around ages 14–21).<ref name="Blanchard2008">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. {{#invoke:doi|main}}.</ref><ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> The term hebephilia was introduced by Bernard Glueck in 1955.<ref>Glueck, B. C. Jr. (1955). Final report: Research project for the study and treatment of persons convicted of crimes involving sexual aberrations. June 1952 to June 1955. New York: New York State Department of Mental Hygiene.</ref> Ephebophilia is not classified as a paraphilia, due to overlaps with teleiophilia and overlaps and similarities between Tanner Stages 4 and 5. Forensic psychologist and sexologist Dr. Michael Seto has noted "older adolescents are reproductively viable and the fact that typically men are attracted to older adolescents, as reflected in self-report, psychophysiological, and pornography use studies (Freund, Seeley, Marshall, & Glinfort, 1972; Symons, 1979)".<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
• Romantic and/or sexual attraction/preference to adults
  • Teleiophilia (from Greek téleios, "full grown") is a romantic and/or sexual preference for adults (around 18 to late 30s early 40s), specifically for adult body types, as it encompasses attraction towards postpubertals, the sexually mature.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> Dr. Michael Seto states: "A sexual preference in those in late adolescence who show many signs of sexual maturity (Tanner stage 4) or who are sexually mature (Tanner stage 5) is not representative of hebephilia; instead, it can be described as ephebophilia or teleiophilia (Hames & Blanchard, 2012)."<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref name=":3">Template:Cite journal</ref> The term was coined by Ray Blanchard in 2000 and has seen less public adoption than some newer terms.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • Mesophilia (derived from the Greek "mesos", "intermediate") is a romantic and/or sexual preference for middle-aged adults (around late 40s and 60s). The term was coined by Michael Seto in 2016.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
  • Gerontophilia is a romantic and/or sexual preference for the elderly. (70s+)<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>

See also

• Age disparity in sexual relationships
• List of paraphilias
• MILF