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Pedophilia vs Korephilia - What's the difference?

pedophilia | korephilia |

Korephilia is a related term of pedophilia.



As nouns the difference between pedophilia and korephilia

is that pedophilia is sexual or erotic feelings or desires directed by adults and late adolescents towards children; particularly, in psychiatry, a paraphilia consisting of a primary adult sexual attraction to prepubescent children while korephilia is {{l/en|eros|Erotic}} attraction of a {{l/en|woman}} or older {{l/en|female}} toward young (chiefly|lang=en {{l/en|prepubescent|pre-}} and/or {{l/en|peripubescent}}) {{l/en|girl|girls}}; {{l/en|lesbian}} {{l/en|pederasty}}.

pedophilia

Alternative forms

* paedophilia (British) *

Noun

(en-noun)
  • Sexual or erotic feelings or desires directed by adults and late adolescents towards children; particularly, in psychiatry, a paraphilia consisting of a primary adult sexual attraction to prepubescent children.
  • * 2004 , Ronald J. Comer, Fundamentals of abnormal psychology , page 341:
  • Some people with pedophilia are attracted only to children; others are attracted to adults as well (APA, 2000, 1994).
  • * 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, [...]
  • Sexual activity between adults and (prepubescent) children.
  • * 1998 , Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo (ISBN 0674096452), page 25:
  • Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct.
  • * 2005 , Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide , page 88:
  • Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia , [...]
  • * 2009 , Nancy Cavender, Howard Kahane, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life , page 309:
  • It's quite another (a bad idea) to expect amateurs to figure out who is telling the truth about Iraq, or which priests have committed pedophilia .

    Synonyms

    * pederasty * childlove (euphemistic)

    Antonyms

    * pedophobia

    Derived terms

    * pedophile

    korephilia

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (label) .
  • * 1991 , Geoffrey Scott Puterbaugh (username), “ Morning Gays at the AHA” in soc.motss, (Usenet) :
  • It seems safe to assume that the panelists were referring to (pick your term) man–boy love, pederasty, ephebophilia. They may also have been referring to korephilia (woman–girl) and (looking internationally) may have been referring to paedophilia, since Dutch reformers seem to have seized on this term to refer to all inter-generational sex.
  • * 1993 , David T. Evans, Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities (2004), chapter 8, page 220:
  • Paedophilia and korephilia , respectively adult male and female ‘sexual love directed towards children…in pre-puberty and early adolescence’ (PIE 1978), have been openly championed by various organisations in the recent past.
  • * 1998 , Ruediger Landmann (username), “ Re: Proposal: alt.binaries.korephile” in alt.config, (Usenet) :
  • How many posts about korephilia are being made to already existing newsgroups at the moment?
  • * 2007 , James T. Sears (editor), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, & Sexuality Through History'' VI: ''The Modern World , “ Pederasty”:
  • Unlike pedophilia, which defines adult male or female attraction to a prepubescent girl or boy under thirteen, and korephilia , which denotes adult female attraction to girls, pederasty specifically defines emotional, intimate, and physical adult male attraction to teenage boys.
  • * 2008 , Bonnie G. Smith (editor), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History'' III: ''Kaffka–Service Sector , “ Pederasty”:
  • Contemporary pederasty and korephilia differ from classical norms in that the younger partner may…take sexual initiative rather than be passive in serving the pleasures of the older partner.
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