Pedosexual

adj, noun

adj, noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An adult who is sexually active with children. uncommon

    "There, pedosexuals are helped by a group of volunteers after their detention. The resulting social network has been shown to cut reoffending rates quite considerably."

Adjective
  1. 1
    Being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child. not-comparable, uncommon

    "1994, T. P. Smith, Effects of the child's relative age appearance and attractiveness on vulnerability to pedosexual interactions (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1993; published by Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(12), 6472B)"

Example

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"1994, T. P. Smith, Effects of the child's relative age appearance and attractiveness on vulnerability to pedosexual interactions (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1993; published by Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(12), 6472B)"

Etymology

From pedo- (“child”) + sexual.

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