*Groans*

"Based on some recent off-board discussion I have had with a few fellow MAAs [Minor Attracted Adults] whom I greatly respect, it has become all the more clear that we must again attempt something we have done a few times over the past decade I have been here: look to the classic Greek language to find a suitable prefix that will enable us to create a term for a younger person who has a sexual, emotional, and social preference--or strong regular attraction to--people who are significantly older than they are, but not necessarily elderly;"

The Greek language is...kinda old. So why use it to sound more intellectual to people who don't care for intelligence, i.e. lawmakers?

"And yes, I am well aware that Wikipedia, amongst other sources, defines "gerontophile" that way (to save respondents the time and effort of mentioning it and linking to those respective sources in this thread to show me)."

Anybody who lets any website define where they eat, sleep, live, and drop their loads has an identity problem.

"As such, it deserves a term of its own that is accurate, and preferentially taken from the classic Greek lexicon, as is traditional when it comes to nomenclature of this type."

Tradition also calls to brutally murder people for breaking norms such as having consensual sex with people not deemed ready for sex.
And to term such people as chomos, kiddy fiddlers, baby rapists, cradle robbers, any I miss?

"This means that a new term must be developed and popularized, and it must be one that a large number of us can agree upon (no term is going to satisfy absolutely everybody in the community or the research world, of course, and there will always be a number of our community and researchers who will refuse to use any term the majority of us could possibly come up with and agree upon for various aesthetic reasons). I also think any prefix we may come up with needs to be relatively easy to pronounce, spell, and remember, otherwise large numbers of us will avoid using it for those reasons alone, regardless of how much we may agree on its viability."

Here's an ideal term: none. Let people - regardless of age - define themselves, lest we'll become worse than Big Brother.

"Why is such a term so necessary?"

Exactly what I've been scratching my head about. Spare us all headaches if you will.

"As much of the community is aware, since I cannot date young adolescent girls for legal reasons..."

Know the right palms to grease, or know your way around prison, and you might - with a few burn marks - be okay. Otherwise, fair enough that you play it safe.

"Greater understanding of this phenomena will likely have a strong impact on social policy in the future, if only such individuals had a term to apply to themselves so they could establish an actual identity that will enable them to view themselves as a minority who possess specific emotional needs, so that they can gather in groups to lawfully demand their rights along those lines."

Again, why label people so they can place themselves at a disadvantage?

"...they can be useful for understanding the diversity that exists within the human species, and can also be used as a uniting, not divisive, force for individuals who do justifiably constitute a minority but who may never have thought of themselves as such in large numbers simply because an identity-conferring term was never developed for them."

See the above responses.

"Let us not forget that our community coined the appellation nepiophile to distinguish those of us who are attracted to minors who are very young, i.e., infants and toddlers, since this particular preference is less common than standard pedophilia, which has given such individuals the impetus to speak out and discuss their unique form of attraction, thus resulting in a degree of better understanding."

Human sexuality doesn't NEED a label. Who we choose to give up the skins to is none of anyone's business - not even the law. They just want the dollars that come out of the whole child protection racket. Why do you think Meth is easier to get than sex?

Answer that question, then invest your time in trying to alter the moneymaking lawmaking machine from within instead of thinking up labels that'll get us laughed at for being even more "delusional" than everyone expected. Meantime, I'll let people decide what they want for themselves.