teleiophile
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Noun[edit]
teleiophile (plural teleiophiles)
- (sexology) A person who is sexually attracted to adults.
- Synonym: adultophile
- Coordinate terms: pedophile, hebephile, ephebophile, gerontophile
- Hypernym: normophile
- 2003, Ray Blanchard et al., “Self-Reported Head Injuries Before and After Age 13 in Pedophilic and Nonpedophilic Men Referred for Clinical Assessment”, in Archives of Sexual Behavior, DOI: :
- Of the remaining 428, 70 were classified as pedophiles, 225 as hebephiles, and 133 as teleiophiles.
- 2009, January 24, “Charles Mcgrath”, in Surveying the Outer Reaches of Lust[1]:
- Daniel Bergner, age 48, the divorced father of two teenage children, is what sexologists would call a straight, vanilla teleiophile.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:teleiophile.