Definition of "pedophilia" []

• The act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children. (noun)

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• "Based on the above, the term pedophilia, when used in the context of this discussion as a description of a person who has certain preferences for children as sexual objects, is appropriate for the comparison made by ShelbyC, showing the relationship, or lack thereof, between morality and choice."
• "First of all, the term pedophilia erotica was coined in 1886 by the Vienna psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his writing Psychopathia Sexualis"
• "I think this is an awful abuse of power and the law, but please, PLEASE, stop using the term pedophilia and pedophile."