Androphysis

Androsphysia (Greek ἀνδρός “male” + Greek φύσις “nature”) is a sexual preference for partners of the same biological sex as the person himself. In everyday life, this usually means that a person prefers to have sexual relations with members of his biological sex at least 80% of the time. People often classify homosexuality as androphilia - homosexual desires are a normal physiological phenomenon, however, homosexuals are usually called precisely those people who cannot control their attraction.

The term androsphilia initially had a negative meaning, but this attitude is not associated with the very fact of a man’s bisexuality, but with associations of pedophilia and bestiality as manifestations of bisexual attraction that cause rejection in most people. It is believed that these concepts have become synonymous in the mass consciousness thanks to fiction, primarily detective stories, reviews of morals, travelogues and works on gynecology. Examples of such works are the memoirs of Baroness T. H. Manteuffel about her sexual experiences with men and women, as well as the “vulgar” novel by M. Butte-Montellier, “False Shame...”, which was popular at the time. In the field of sexology, “androphilia” is not