NDLI: ‘Chronophilia’: Entries of Erotic Age Preference into Descriptive Psychopathology

Content Provider	PubMed Central
Author	Janssen, Diederik F.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	A scientific nomenclature of erotic age preferences informed the mid- through late nineteenth century joint appearance of homosexuality and sexual abuse of minors on the medico-legal scene. Yet, even in the twenty-first century, legal, psychiatric and culture-critical dimensions of related terms are rarely cleanly distinguished. Review of primary sources shows the ongoing Western suspension of notions of ‘sick desire’, alongside and beyond the medicalisation of homosexuality, between metaphor, legal interdiction and postulated psychopathology. Virtually all early attention to erotic age preference occurred in the context of emergent attention to erotic gender preference. Age of attraction and age difference centrally animate modern homosexuality’s pre-modern past; its earliest psychiatric nomenclature and typologies (1844–69); its early aetiologies stipulating degrees of sexual differentiation (1890s); its concomitant sub-classification (1896–1914); its earliest psychophysiological tests (1950s); and, finally, its post-psychiatric, social scientific typologies (1980s). Several identifications of ‘paedophilia’ were seen throughout the 1890s but as a trope it gained cultural momentum only during, and as a seemingly intriguing corollary of, the progressive depsychiatricisation of homosexuality across the Anglo-European world (late 1950s through 1980s). Early twentieth century sources varied in having it denote (1) a distinct perversion, thus possible ‘complication’ of sexual inversion (2) a discrete corollary of psychosexual differentiation akin to gender preference (3) a distinct subtype of fetishism, thus a likely imprint of early seduction (4) a more intricate expression of erotic symbolism or psychosexual complex or (5) a taste answering to culture, a lack of it, or a libertine disregard for it.
Related Links	http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/mdh.2015.47
Ending Page	598
Page Count	24
Starting Page	575
File Format	PDF
ISSN	00257273
e-ISSN	20488343
Journal	Medical History
Issue Number	4
Volume Number	59
Language	English
Publisher	Cambridge University Press
Publisher Date	2015-10-01
Access Restriction	Open
Rights Holder	Cambridge University Press
Subject Keyword	Nursing(all) Medicine (miscellaneous) History Research in Higher Education
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Nursing History Medicine

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