What is Androphilia and gynephilia?
'''Androphilia and gynephilia''' are terms in [[behavioral science]] (the study of human and animal behavior) that describe [[sexual orientation]]. It is an alternative to the [[gender binary]] in [[Homosexuality|homosexual]] and [[Heterosexuality|heterosexual]]. Androphilia is attraction to a man or masculinity (any quality or behavior linked to a man). Gynephilia is attraction to a woman or [[femininity]].<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/649908924|title=Migrating Genders : Westernisation, Migration, and Samoan Fa'afafine|last=Schmidt|first=Johanna|date=2010|publisher=Ashgate|isbn=978-1-4094-0274-9|location=Farnham, Surrey, England|pages=45|oclc=649908924}}</ref> '''Ambiphilia''' ([[bisexuality]]) is the combination of androphilia and gynephilia.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/429227903|title=The Corsini encyclopedia of psychology|last=Diamond|first=M|date=2010|publisher=Wiley|others=Weiner, Irving B., Craighead, W. Edward.|isbn=978-0-470-17024-3|edition=4th|location=Hoboken, NJ|pages=1578|oclc=429227903}}</ref> The terms describe the focus of attraction with no need to credit a [[sex assignment]] or [[gender identity]] to the person. It will skirt any difficulty to understand people between the [[Western civilization|West]] and the [[Eastern world|East]]. The terms will also describe [[Intersexuality|intersex]] and [[transgender]] people. == History == === Androphilia === [[Magnus Hirschfeld]] was an early 1900s German sexologist (expert in sex and sexuality). Hirschfeld put a homosexual man in one of four groups. A man with attraction to a boy ([[Pedophilia|pedophile]]). A man with attraction to an [[wikt:adolescent|adolescent]] boy ([[Ephebophilia|ephebophile]]). A man with attraction to another young man (androphile). A man with attraction to an old man ([[Gerontophilia|gerontophile]]).<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Hirschfeld|first=Magnus|date=1944|title=Sexual Anomalies|url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/00006842-194507000-00013|journal=Psychosomatic Medicine|volume=7|issue=4|p