pedophilia

English

Alternative forms

• paedophilia (British)
• pædophilia (British, dated)

Etymology

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Ancient Greek (deprecated template usage) παιδοφιλία (paidophilía), from (deprecated template usage) παιδόφιλος (paidóphilos), from (deprecated template usage) παῖς (paîs) and (deprecated template usage) φιλέω (philéō). Equivalent to .

Pronunciation

• (UK) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/

  (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) Rhymes: -ɪliə

• (US) (deprecated use of |lang= parameter) IPA^(key): /ˌpɛ.dəˈfiː.li.ə/

Usage note

Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a sexual preference for children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in children. See Wikipedia for more information.

Noun

pedophilia (usually uncountable, plural pedophilias)

1. Sexual feelings or desires directed by adults 16 and older towards 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 activity between adults and (prepubescent) children.
   • 1998, Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo (ISBN 0674096452), page 25:

     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.

   • 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, 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.

Synonyms

• pederasty
• childlove (euphemistic)

Antonyms

• pedophobia

Derived terms

• pedophile

Related terms

• ephebophilia
• pedophile, paedophile; pedophilic, paedophilic
• hebephilia
• korephilia
• pederast
• pedosexuality

Translations

sexual feeling of desire directed by adults towards children

• Arabic: غلمانية f (ghulmaníyya)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戀童癖／恋童癖 (zh) (liàntóngpǐ), 恋童癖 (liàntóngpǐ)

• Czech: pedofilie f
• Danish: pædofili c
• Dutch: pedofilie (nl), knapenliefde (nl)
• Finnish: pedofilia (fi)
• French: pédophilie (fr) f
• Galician: pedofilia (gl) f
• German: Pädophilie (de) f
• Greek: παιδοφιλία f (paidofilía)
• Hebrew: פֶּדוֹפִילְיָה (he)
• Irish: péidifilia f
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• Italian: pedofilia (it) f
• Japanese: 小児性愛 (しょうにせいあい, shōniseiai), 児童性愛 (じどうせいあい, jidōseiai), ペドフィリア (pedofiria)
• Korean: 소아성애 (soaseongae)
• Persian: پدوفیلی
• Polish: pedofilia (pl) f
• Portuguese: pedofilia (pt) f
• Russian: педофилия (ru) f (pedofilíja)
• Spanish: pedofilia (es) f
• Swedish: pedofili (sv)
• Vietnamese: ái nhi

sexual acts between adults and children

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戀童癖／恋童癖 (zh) (liàntóngpǐ), 恋童癖 (liàntóngpǐ)

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• Finnish: pedofilia (fi)
• Russian: педофилия (ru) f (p'edofilíja)

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• Thai: ^{(please verify)} การเป็นเฒ่าหัวงู (gaanbpentâohŭangoo)
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