Pedophilia vs Pedophiliac - What's the difference?
pedophilia | pedophiliac |
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:
* 2007 , Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases , page 122:
* 2009 , Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, Abnormal Psychology :
Sexual activity between adults and (prepubescent) children.
* 1998 , Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo (ISBN 0674096452), page 25:
* 2005 , Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide , page 88:
* 2009 , Nancy Cavender, Howard Kahane, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life , page 309:
As nouns the difference between pedophilia and pedophiliac
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 pedophiliac is standard spelling of from=American spelling|paedophiliac.As an adjective pedophiliac is
standard spelling of from=American spelling|paedophiliac.pedophilia
English
(wikipedia pedophilia)Alternative forms
* paedophilia (British) *Noun
(en-noun)- Some people with pedophilia are attracted only to children; others are attracted to adults as well (APA, 2000, 1994).
- As noted earlier, pedophilia' was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of ' pedophilia .
- Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]
- 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.
- 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 , [...]
- 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 .
