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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>'''Androphilia''' is attraction to adult males. The term has been useful for transgender and intersex people, who find ''[[homosexual]]'' and ''[[heterosexual]]'' too limiting.<br />
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The term can also be used to distinguish attractions to adults from [[pederasty]] and [[pedophilia]]. In the field of [[sex offender rehabilitation]], the term '''gynephilia''' is used to mean "attraction to adult women", in contrast with pedophilia, with the aim of therapy usually being to substitute pedophilic desires for gynophilic ones.<br />
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[[Magnus Hirschfeld]], writing in the early 20th century, offered a three-fold age classification system for homosexual males:<br />
*[[Ephebophile]]s, who prefer partners from ages 17-20<br />
*Androphiles, who prefer men from age 20 to 50s<br />
*[[Gerontophile]]s, who prefer old men.<br />
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The term androphilia has been useful in describing societies where pederasty was the norm, but where homosexual attraction to adult men was frowned upon.<br />
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==Sources==<br />
*[[Wikipedia:en:Androphilia|Wikipedia article on androphilia and gynophilia]]<br />
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