Gynecophilia

Gynecophilia , also Gynäphilie or Gynophilie , ( Greek : γυνή gynḗ, Gen. γυναικός gynaikós "woman", -phily from φιλία philía "friendship", "love") describes adult women as the main target of the romantic, emotional and sexual interests of a person. The adjectives are called "gynophil", "gynäphil" or "gynäkophil". The complementary term is androphilia .

For the person described, the term is independent of their gender. So gynophile men are heterosexual and gynophile women gay . 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 gynophilia often specifies the gender of the desiring person in such cases becomes irrelevant. In the case of bisexuality , this doesn't matter.

Since the term refers to adult women, it can also be used to distinguish it from pedophilia . In the United States , the term is used to more accurately refer to sex offenders .

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

Corophilia for interest in young girls (today pedophilia is used for both male and female children)

Parthenophilia for interest in teenage girls and / or virgins

Gynecophilia for the interest in adult women

Graophilia for interest in old women (today gerontophilia is used for old 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 than homosexual and heterosexual anyway. His research had led him to believe 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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↑ Wayne R. Dynes: Androphilia ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (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 .

↑ Example with the complementary term: "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.

↑ 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

↑ 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.

[wayne-1] Wayne R. Dynes: Androphilia ( Memento of the original from August 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The @1@ 2 archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (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 with the complementary term: "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

[diamond-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.