different between pederasty vs pedophilia

English

Alternative forms

• paederasty (British)
• pæderasty (British, dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ??????????? (paiderastía, “love of boys”), from ??????????? (paiderast?s, “pederast”), from ???? (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ??????? (erast?s, “lover”), from ?????? (éramai, “to l?ve”).

Pronunciation

• (UK): IPA^(key): /?p?d.?.??s.ti/
• (US): IPA^(key): /?p?d.?.?æs.ti/, /?pi.d?.?æs.ti/

Noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties)

1. Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.

   Antonym: (erotic love between a woman and a girl) korephilia

2. (archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.

Usage notes

• Originally referred to formal practices mandated by Greek customs and laws. Often used in a modern sense for either lawful or transgressive inter-generational love relationships.
• Often used colloquially to describe sexual abuse that is perpetrated by adults on pre-pubescent boys (see pedophilia).

Synonyms

• boylove (euphemistic)

Related terms

• pederast
• pederastic
• pedophile

Translations

English

Alternative forms

• paedophilia (British)
• pædophilia (British, dated)

Etymology

An adaptation of the German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- +? -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek ?????????? (paidophilía, “love of children”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pi?.d??f?.li.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pe.d??f?.li.?/

  Rhymes: -?li?

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.d??fi.li.?/
• Hyphenation: ped?o?phil?i?a

Noun

pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias) (American spelling)

1. Sexual attraction to children by adults.

   Synonyms: (euphemistic) childlove, pederosis

   Antonyms: teleiophilia, pedophobia

   Coordinate terms: hebephilia, ephebophilia, korephilia, teleiophilia

   Hypernym: paraphilia

   • 2007, Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases, page 122:

     As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.

   • 2009, Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, Abnormal Psychology:

     Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pedophilia.
2. Sexual activity between adults and children.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pedophilia.

Usage notes

• Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children. Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically prepubescent children; primary attraction towards pubescent children is known as hebephilia and towards post-pubescent adolescents as ephebophilia. See Wikipedia for more information.

Synonyms

• (psychiatry): pedophilic disorder (“a clinical diagnostic classification”) (American Psychiatric Association)

Derived terms

• pedophile

Related terms

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