different between ephebophilia vs pedophilia

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (éph?bos, “adolescent”) + ????? (philía, “love, friendship”). Surface analysis ephebe +? -philia.

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?li?

Noun

ephebophilia (uncountable)

1. Primary adult sexual attraction towards late pubescent or postpubescent adolescents

   Coordinate terms: hebephilia, pedophilia, teleiophilia

Derived terms

• ephebophile
• ephebophilic

See also

• pederast

Further reading

• ephebophilia on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Alternative forms

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

Etymology

An adaptation of the German Pädophilie, bringing its spelling into conformity with pedo- +? -philia. Compare the Byzantine Greek ?????????? (paidophilía, “love of children”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?pi?.d??f?.li.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?pe.d??f?.li.?/

  Rhymes: -?li?

• (US) IPA^(key): /?p?.d??fi.li.?/
• Hyphenation: ped?o?phil?i?a

Noun

pedophilia (countable and uncountable, plural pedophilias) (American spelling)

1. Sexual attraction to children by adults.

   Synonyms: (euphemistic) childlove, pederosis

   Antonyms: teleiophilia, pedophobia

   Coordinate terms: hebephilia, ephebophilia, korephilia, teleiophilia

   Hypernym: paraphilia

   • 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, [...]

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pedophilia.
2. Sexual activity between adults and children.
   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:pedophilia.

Usage notes

• Many psychologists recommend against using the term pedophilia to denote sexual activities with children, because not all people with a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children (i.e., pedophilia) commit such acts, and child molesters often lack a strong sexual interest in prepubescent children. Furthermore, psychological texts define pedophilia as a primary or exclusive attraction towards specifically prepubescent children; primary attraction towards pubescent children is known as hebephilia and towards post-pubescent adolescents as ephebophilia. See Wikipedia for more information.

Synonyms

• (psychiatry): pedophilic disorder (“a clinical diagnostic classification”) (American Psychiatric Association)

Derived terms

• pedophile

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