Pedophilia vs Pedosexual - What's the difference?
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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:
(uncommon, of an act or behavior) Being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.
* 1994', T. P. Smith, ''Effects of the child's relative age appearance and attractiveness on vulnerability to '''pedosexual''' interactions'' (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1993; published by Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(12), 6472B)
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(uncommon) An adult who is sexually active with children.
* 2014 , D. F. Swaab, We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain (ISBN 0679644377):
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As nouns the difference between pedophilia and pedosexual
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 pedosexual is an adult who is sexually active with children.As an adjective pedosexual is
being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.pedophilia
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(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 .
Synonyms
* pederasty * childlove (euphemistic)Antonyms
* pedophobiaDerived terms
* pedophilepedosexual
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Adjective
(-)Noun
(en noun)- There, pedosexuals are helped by a group of volunteers after their detention. The resulting social network has been shown to cut reoffending rates quite considerably.
