Talk:pedosexuality

In German, de:Pädosexualität. Leucosticte (talk) 03:46, 3 January 2014 (UTC)

—This comment is out of chronological order: The above entry page for the German term does not exist on 2 May 2015. —BoBoMisiu (talk) 13:48, 2 May 2015 (UTC)

This sounds wrong. It's like it's synonmizing pedophile with child molester. — This comment was unsigned.

While this word might seem morphologically ambiguous — some sexuality terms, like heterosexuality, often refer to attraction rather than sexual activity — it turns out that when this word is actually used, people are almost always referring to activity, not attraction: see Citations:pedosexuality. Also, note that most of the -sexuality words that refer to attraction, like heterosexuality, are polysemous and do also refer to activity. As you can see from Citations:pedosexuality, it seems that even this word is showing signs of polysemy — it's just so rarely used that not all of its possible senses are actually attested often enough to meet Wiktionary's criteria for inclusion. - -sche (discuss) 21:54, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

I think it is a neologism which has some attested use. It seems to be used in Northern Europe. It seems to be used in translations from German. A polysemy is evident, for example, the quote from Continuum Complete International Encyclopedia of Sexuality article (see Citations:pedosexuality) shows it is criminal behavior and a synonym of pedophilia, but some authors and websites make a distinction that pedosexuality is behavior but pedophilia is not. I think the definition of pedosexuality should be: {{label|en|behavior}} {{synonym of|pedophilia|lang=en}}.