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Definition of Pedophilia

1. Noun. A sexual attraction to children.

Definition of Pedophilia

1. 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. (defdate from 20th c.) ¹

2. Noun. Sexual acts committed by adults with prepubescent children. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pedophilia

1. [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pedophilia

1. Sexual fondness and activity of adults with children.pedophilia is a form of paraphilia (deviant sexual behaviour). (12 Dec 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pedophilia

Literary usage of Pedophilia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Sexuality Series by Oneil McQuick (2006)
"pedophilia: Pedophiles or pedophilia, is someone who dares to have sex or do anything ... Such acts and pedophilia is just simple devilry and utter evil. ..."

2. The Sex Offender: Current Treatment Modalities and Systems Issuesby Barbara K Schwartz by Barbara K Schwartz (2002)
"Risperidone and fluoxetine in the treatment of pedophilia with comorbid dys- ... Sadistic homosexual pedophilia: Treatment with cyproterone acetate—A single ..."

3. Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians by Michael Matthew Kaylor (2006)
"Ames and Houston argue that 'true pedophilia' should not be defined as an attraction to a certain chronological age, but to a certain pre-pubescent body ..."

4. Jehovah Himself Has Become King by Robert King (2005)
"A more apt comparison to the demonic ritual of child sacrifice is the pedophilia practiced by some of the clergy of Christendom—particularly Catholic ..."

5. Criminal Justice: New Technologies And The Constitution (1989)
"... 1. denying offenders who deny their crime or the criminal nature of the crime (ie, they claim the rape was consensual or the pedophilia was initiated by ..."

6. The Sexual Predatorby Anita M. Schlank, Fred Cohen, Civic Research Institute by Anita M. Schlank, Fred Cohen, Civic Research Institute (1999)
"pedophilia not always a disorder. NARTH Bulletin, 1-3. Note. (1997). Involuntary commitment of violent sexual predators. Harvard Law Review, 111, 259, 264. ..."

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