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#* '''2009''', Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, ''Abnormal Psychology'':
#* '''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, [...]
#*: Sometimes a man with '''pedophilia''' is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]
# Sexual [[act]]s committed by adults with prepubescent children.
#* '''2005''', Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, ''The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide'', page 88:
#*: 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''', [...]
#* '''2009''', Ann Wolbert Burgess, Cheryl Regehr, Albert R. Roberts, ''Victimology: theories and applications'', page 150:
#*: Prior to the Internet, people who engaged in '''''pedophilia''''' usually had to pursue this activity alone and had to keep it extremely secret.
#* '''2009''', Nancy Cavender, Howard Kahane, ''Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life'', page 309:
#*: 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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Noun

pedophilia (usually uncountable, plural pedophilias)

  1. 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, [...]
  2. Sexual acts committed by adults with prepubescent children.
    • 2005, Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide, page 88:
      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, [...]
    • 2009, Ann Wolbert Burgess, Cheryl Regehr, Albert R. Roberts, Victimology: theories and applications, page 150:
      Prior to the Internet, people who engaged in pedophilia usually had to pursue this activity alone and had to keep it extremely secret.
    • 2009, Nancy Cavender, Howard Kahane, Logic and Contemporary Rhetoric: The Use of Reason in Everyday Life, page 309:
      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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