• Pedosexual

    Origin

    - + sexual

    Full definition of pedosexual

    Adjective

    pedosexual

    1. (uncommon, of an act or behavior) Being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.
      • 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)mentioned in 2008 in Sexual Deviance: Theory, Assessment, and Treatment (ISBN 1593856059), page 181

    Noun

    pedosexual

    (plural pedosexuals)
    1. (uncommon) An adult who is sexually active with children.
      • 2014, D. F. Swaab, We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain (ISBN 0679644377):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.

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