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# [[Sexual]] [[attraction]] to or sexual contact with [[minor]]s by [[adult]]s.
# Primary or exclusive [[sexual]] [[feeling]]s or [[desire]]s by [[major]]s (i.e. those over the [[age of consent]]) towards [[minor]]s.
# {{context|medicine|more strictly|lang=en}} Sexual attraction by adults and older adolescents towards [[prepubescent]] [[child]]ren.<ref>http://www.icd9data.com/2015/Volume1/290-319/300-316/302/302.2.htm</ref>
# {{context|medicine and psychiatry|more strictly|lang=en}} Mental disorder in which an adult or adolescent aged 16 years or older is mostly or only sexually attracted towards [[prepubescent]] [[child]]ren.<ref>http://www.icd9data.com/2015/Volume1/290-319/300-316/302/302.2.htm</ref>
#* '''2004''', Ronald J. Comer, ''Fundamentals of abnormal psychology'', page 341:
#* '''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).
#*: Some people with '''pedophilia''' are attracted only to children; others are attracted to adults as well (APA, 2000, 1994).

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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 Lua error in Module:affix/templates at line 130: The |lang= parameter is not used by this template. Place the language code in parameter 1 instead..

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pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias)

  1. Sexual attraction to or sexual contact with minors by adults.
  2. (deprecated template usage) (medicine and psychiatry, more strictly) Mental disorder in which an adult or adolescent aged 16 years or older is mostly or only sexually attracted towards prepubescent children.[1]
    • 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, [...]
  3. 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.

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 prepubescent children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children.[2][3] Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia as a preference for specifically prepubescent children;[4] preferential attraction to older children is known as hebephilia or ephebophilia. See Wikipedia for more information.

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References

  1. ^ http://www.icd9data.com/2015/Volume1/290-319/300-316/302/302.2.htm
  2. ^ Seto, Michael (2008). Pedophilia and Sexual Offending Against Children. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association. p. vii.
  3. ^ Lanning, Kenneth V. (2010). Child Molesters: A Behavioral Analysis (fifth ed.). National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. pp. 29–30 (45–46 of PDF).
  4. ^ American Psychiatric Association, ed. (2013). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (fifth ed.). American Psychiatric Publishing. p. 697.
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