The term "teleiophile" has been repeatedly used here and elsewhere to describe someone who has a sexual and emotional preference for people in the same general age group as themselves, which is most often adults. Many have been using it here that way, and that is where I derived it from. In fact, Freethinker, I will be amazed if you claim you have never seen it used here by many posters, and often at that. It's not an error that I alone use "for some reason," that reason being that I have seen many here use it in that manner.
The term "adultophilia" can work if only applied to underagers with the preferences I am discussing in my essay, but that word wouldn't be applicable to individuals who are of legal adult age who have a preference for significantly older people who are not necessarily elderly (as I noted in the essay). Hence, using the term "teleiophile" to simply mean a sexual and emotional preference for adults would not cover youths with the preference I am describing who are already legal adults, as it doesn't make the specific age demographic of their preference clear, but simply makes it known they have a preference for people who are at least 18 years old, which covers a rather broad range of age demographics, and thus too broad to use for the term I am seeking. What I am seeking here has to be a term describing a preference for an age group who is much older than their own demographic, but not necessarily elderly, as many of us feel the term "gerontophile" specifically means.
"Gynophilia" and "androphilia" can also be validly used, but again, only if applied to underagers who prefer significantly older individuals who are not necessarily, and most often not, elderly.
Any further discussion on this, people?