different between pedophilia vs korephilia

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

Related terms

Translations

References

English

Etymology

From the Ancient Greek ???? (kór?, “girl”) +? ?????? (philí?, “love”), coined by analogy with pedophilia.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k????f?li.?/, /?k????fi?li.?/
• (Received Pronunciation, UK) IPA^(key): /k????f?l??/

Noun

korephilia (uncountable)

1. (rare) Erotic attraction of a woman or older female toward young girls; lesbian pederasty.
   • 1991, Geoffrey Scott Puterbaugh (username), “Morning Gays at the AHA” in soc.motss, Usenet:

     It seems safe to assume that the panelists were referring to (pick your term) man–boy love, pederasty, ephebophilia. They may also have been referring to korephilia (woman–girl) and (looking internationally) may have been referring to paedophilia, since Dutch reformers seem to have seized on this term to refer to all inter-generational sex.

   • 1993, David T. Evans, Sexual Citizenship: The Material Construction of Sexualities (2004), chapter 8, page 220:

     Paedophilia and korephilia, respectively adult male and female ‘sexual love directed towards children…in pre-puberty and early adolescence’ (PIE 1978), have been openly championed by various organisations in the recent past.

   • 1998, Ruediger Landmann (username), “Re: Proposal: alt.binaries.korephile” in alt.config, Usenet:

     How many posts about korephilia are being made to already existing newsgroups at the moment?

   • 2007, James T. Sears (editor), The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Love, Courtship, & Sexuality Through History VI: The Modern World, “Pederasty”:

     Unlike pedophilia, which defines adult male or female attraction to a prepubescent girl or boy under thirteen, and korephilia, which denotes adult female attraction to girls, pederasty specifically defines emotional, intimate, and physical adult male attraction to teenage boys.

   • 2008, Bonnie G. Smith (editor), The Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History III: Kaffka–Service Sector, “Pederasty”:

     Contemporary pederasty and korephilia differ from classical norms in that the younger partner may…take sexual initiative rather than be passive in serving the pleasures of the older partner.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:korephilia.

Related terms

• korephile

Translations

See also