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#* '''2009''', Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, ''Abnormal Psychology'': |
#* '''2009''', Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, ''Abnormal Psychology'': |
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#*: Sometimes a man with '''pedophilia''' is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...] |
#*: Sometimes a man with '''pedophilia''' is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...] |
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# Sexual [[act]]s committed by adults with prepubescent children. |
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#* '''2005''', Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, ''The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide'', page 88: |
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#*: 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''', [...] |
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#* '''2009''', Ann Wolbert Burgess, Cheryl Regehr, Albert R. Roberts, ''Victimology: theories and applications'', page 150: |
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#*: Prior to the Internet, people who engaged in '''''pedophilia''''' usually had to pursue this activity alone and had to keep it extremely secret. |
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#* '''2009''', Nancy Cavender, Howard Kahane, ''Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life'', page 309: |
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#*: 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'''. |
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Revision as of 15:22, 7 February 2014
English
Alternative forms
- (British) paedophilia, pædophilia
Etymology
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Pronunciation
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Noun
pedophilia (usually uncountable, plural pedophilias)
- 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. [from 20th c.]
- 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, [...]
- 2004, Ronald J. Comer, Fundamentals of abnormal psychology, page 341:
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Translations
sexual feeling of desire directed towards children
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