“Gerontophilia is the condition in which younger people are predominantly interested in, or only able to, make love to older people.
If an older partner is essential for them to achieve sexual satisfaction, it would be included in one of the paraphilias, or perversions as they were once called in less politically correct days… Now gerontophilia tends to be used only to describe the rape or sexual assault of a woman over 50 by an appreciably younger man. It is not so much a demonstration of love than of aggression and revenge. It is more, if not entirely, about sexual sadism than attraction, and of retributive violence rather than sexual desire. Gerontophilia is often a symptom found in inadequate people who, in their early life, may have been subjected to violence by older women, or men. They tend to have been inadequate and disappointing to their parents, and so may have been beaten frequently as a child. They therefore tend to be found in societies where parents, as well as the general ethos, are very strictly disciplinarian. It is not surprising, then, that an unexpectedly large number of aggressive gerontophiles suffered from bedwetting until a late age and so were consequently frequently in trouble with their unreasonable, bullying or very strict parents.” — The Times (UK)

(Thanks to Furpo for the link.)

One of the very first stories published here on PervScan declared that gerontophilia “is one of those fetishes that always makes you scratch your head and go, ‘Hmmm.’” It seems to defy the logic of attraction. Why would somebody rape an octogenarian in a grocery parking lot when he could just as easily rape some hot young thing? It doesn’t make sense. True, many fetishes take the peculiar as their object. Many people would find repelling the feet that excite some fetishists. Or if you’ve ever seen a dead body, it’s hard to imagine how a necrophile could really want to hump it and pump it. Dead bodies set off some innate ick reaction. How does that disgust become lust?

This doctor writing in the Times explains the matter by claiming that gerontophilia is not about desire, it’s about revenge. An FBI profiler covered here made a similar case. They may well be right, but somehow it has never seemed like a very satisfactory explanation. If somebody wants to take revenge on an old person, why not bash him in the head with a shovel? Why not coat his dentures with arsenic? Why fuck him? Somehow the revenge explanation leaves the specifically sexual motivation of gerontophilia out of the picture. It whitewashes gerontophilia, neuters it, portrays it as a violence in which sexuality is merely incidental or epiphenomenal. But must desire not form a part of this odd crime against the elderly? Is it really possible for revenge to cause an erection with no admixture of lust?

It seems wrong-minded or possibly even prudish to leave desire out of the concept of gerontophilia. It shoves aside the perversion’s paradox — how does desire attach itself to an object which no longer seems desirable? — but thereby seems to explain something other than the perversion, some geronto mania devoid of its philia.

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