Androphilia

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Androphilia (Greek: ἀνήρ anḗr , Gen. ἀνδρός andrós “man”, -philia from φιλία philía “friendship”, “love”), also androsexuality , denotes the tendency to feel emotionally and sexually attracted to men. The matching counterpart is gynecophilia .

For the person described, the term is independent of their gender. Androphilic women are heterosexual and androphilic men are homosexual . Since the description of the sexual orientation of transgender , transsexual , intersexual people or third genders of other cultures can lead to confusion through the use of the terms homosexual or heterosexual, the term androphilia often specifies the sex of the desiring person in such cases becomes irrelevant. In the case of bisexuality , this doesn't matter.

Since the term contains the factor age, it can also be used to differentiate between pedophilia and ephebophilia . It is useful for describing societies in which age-interrelationships have been or are the rule, but homosexuality between adult men is not.

Magnus Hirschfeld used the following four terms to describe the preferred age of a desired partner of homosexual men:

  • Pedophilia for interest in pre-puberty boys (now used for male and female children)
  • Ephebophilia for interest in male adolescents from puberty to their early 20s
  • Androphilia for interest in men between their 20s and 50s
  • Gerontophilia for interest in older men (used today for older men and women)

Based on his research, the sexologist Kurt Freund was convinced that it would be better to use the terms androphilic and gynophilic instead of homosexual and heterosexual. The investigations had led him to the realization that there was a difference between what a person finds arousing and what he does. People engage in sexual activity with men, women, or both, but few actually show irritant reactions to both sexes.

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  1. ↑ a b c Wayne R. Dynes : Androphilia (PDF; 66 kB). In: Wayne R. Dynes: The Encyclopedia of Homosexuality (Garland Reference Library of Social Science). Taylor & Francis, March 1990, ISBN 0-8240-6544-1 .
  2. ↑ Example: "Fa'afafine are a heterogeneous group of androphilic males, some of whom are unremarkably masculine, but most of whom behave in a feminine manner in adulthood." Nancy H. Bartlett, Paul L. Vasey: A Retrospective Study of Childhood Gender-Atypical Behavior in Samoan Fa'afafine. Archives of Sexual Behavior, Springer Netherlands, ISSN  0004-0002 (Print) 1573-2800 (Online), Volume 35, Number 6, December 2006, pp. 659-666.
  3. ↑ Taste types of homosexuals  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , med9.com, Retrieved January 21, 2008@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.med9.com  
  4. ↑ Milton Diamond: Bisexuality from a Biological Point of View. In: E. J. Haeberle, R. Gindorf: Bisexualities - Ideology and practice of sexual contact with both sexes. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, pp. 41-68.