pedophilia

  1. Noun.  Sexual or erotic feelings or desires directed by adults and late adolescents towards children; particularly, in psychiatry, a paraphilia consisting of a primary adult sexual attraction to prepubescent children. (defdate, from 20th c.) .
  2. Noun.  Sexual acts committed by adults with children.

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