Gerontophilia Sexual Disorders

Gerontophilia - Symptom, Cause and Treatment

This is an attraction to the old and enfeebled. If you're a gerontophiliac, you probably love raisins.

Gerontophilia describes a specific sexual inclination towards the elderly and may at times explain the sadistic attacks made upon them. The case of a homosexual gerontophile who was engaging in assaulting old men is reported here. An attempt has been made at understanding his offending behaviour and possible treatment options proposed.

Chronophilia is a rarely used term coined by John Money. It refers to a group of paraphilias of the stigmatic or eligibilic type in which the paraphile's sexuoerotic age is discordant with his or her actual chronological age and is concordant with the age of the partner, as in infantophilia, pedophilia, ephebophilia, gerontophilia, and teleiophilia.

Facts and Tips about Gerontophilia

1. Gerontophilia is a form of paraphilia.
   
2. This sexual disorder involves love or sexual attraction towards older people.
   
3. Psychoanalysis, drug therapy, behavior therapy, cognitive therapy, hypnosis are used to treat gerontophilia disorder.
   
4. Obsessive characters, not interested in young woman/men, sexual attraction towards elder people are symptoms seen in gerontophilia.
   
5. Gerontophilia is more common in those cultures where grandparents or older people play chief role.
   
6. Cases in which elder women are raped generally results in murder or death.
   
7. Both men and women can have gerontophilia disorder. But it is risky when patient is male.

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