Definition of "paederasty" [paederasty]

• Sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Greek paederasty is explained by gender inferiority but then accounted for by the "peculiar nature" of the Greeks."
• "It was probably at this comparatively late period that certain foreign customs of a sadly lowering character were adopted by this plastic and impressible people, who learnt the vice of paederasty from the Greeks, and adopted from the"
• "Eric Clarke largely passes over Shelley's essay; he notes that Shelley could not get over an incongruity between Greek paederasty and Greek philosophy as thus he "postulated wet daydreams as the true source" behind homoeroticism (127)."