Chronophilia

Chronophilia is the term created by psychologist John Money to describe different sexual preferences classified as paraphilia in which age range or life status become a purpose of sexual attraction. Chronophilia is defined as one of a group of stigmatic paraphilias in which the paraphilic's sex-erotic age does not match his or her true chronological age and is consistent with the individual's age.

Etymology

The term chronophilia was coined by John Money, derived from the Greek roots -χρόνος (time, related to the character of Greek mythology who personified time: Chronos) and - φιλία (love, normally used to refer to deviations in sexual conduct). The term is currently rarely used.

Sexual preferences according to age ranges

Different types of chronophilia can be cataloged that describe different sexual preferences or deviations of sexual behavior within a large sociological spectrum of people of different gender, of different sexual orientation, also within different age ranges of the individual, different population extracts, of different purchasing power and a great variety of professions... without there being a clear trend or a common psychological profile.

• Infantophilia or Nepiophilia (attraction to infants): is the sexual attraction that an adult or adolescent experiences towards infants between 0 and 6 years old. Infantophilia is sometimes listed within the pedophilia or synonymous with it.

• Pedophilia or Paidophilia (age to children): is the chronophilia in which an adult or a teenager experiences sexual attraction towards children between 6 and 9-10 years old

• Hebephilia (training to preteens) is the chronophilia in which an adult experiences sexual attraction towards preteens found in the early stages of puberty development, usually between 10-11 and 13-14 years old.

• Ephebophilia (training to adolescents) is the sexual attraction that an adult experiences towards adolescents who are in the middle and final stages of puberty development, usually between 14-15 and 20-21 years of age.

• Teleiophilia (attraction to adults) is the sexual attraction that a person of any age experiences towards people at their adult stage. The term is normally used to reflect the sexual desire experienced by a child or adolescent towards an adult, relating to the Edipo complex and the Electra complex. When an adult is attracted by another, the term is determined by the gender by which he is attracted (androphilia or gynaecophilia).

• Gerontophilia (attraction to the elderly) is the sexual attraction of a young or adult person towards people who pass through the old age, the term is determined by the gender by which he is attracted (Alphamegamia or Matronolagnia). Gerrontophilia is also common in gerontocratic societies.