what does pedofile mean?

Answer 1

Pedophilia or paedophilia is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent or peripubescent children. Persons with this attraction are called pedophiles.

In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent, as well as those who have sexually abused a child.

Answer 2

Pedophilia or paedophilia (see spelling differences) is the paraphilia of being sexually attracted primarily or exclusively to prepubescent or peripubescent children. Persons with this attraction are called pedophiles.

In contrast to the generally accepted medical definition, the term pedophile is also used colloquially to denote significantly older adults who are sexually attracted to adolescents below the local age of consent,[1] as well as those who have sexually abused a child.

Definitions
The word comes from the Greek paidophilia (παιδοφιλία)—pais (παις, "child") and philia (φιλία, "love, friendship"). Paidophilia was coined by Greek poets as a substitute for "paiderastia" (pederasty).[2]

The term paedophilia erotica was coined in 1886 by the Vienna psychiatrist Richard von Krafft-Ebing in his writing Psychopathia Sexualis.[3] He gave the following characteristics:
* the sexual interest is toward children, either prepubescent or at the beginning of puberty
* the sexual interest is the primary one, that is, exclusively or mainly toward children
* the sexual interest remains over time

Strictly speaking, this definition would include many adolescents and prepubescents, for whom such an interest might be normal; thus, some experts add the criterion that the interest be toward children at least five years younger than the subject. See entry for sexologist Dr. John Money.

Krafft-Ebing also categorized child molesters into three types:
* a.) pedophile,
* b.) surrogate (that is, the child is regarded as a surrogate object for a preferred, non-available adult object)
* c.) sadistic.

Other researchers used their own terms for the Krafft-Ebing categories:
* a.) preferential/structured/fixed (i. e. pedophile) type,
* b.) situational/opportunistic/regressed/incest (i. e. surrogate) type
* c.) sadistic (no change)

This three-type model as well as the fundamental mental and behavioural differences of the three types were empirically evidenced, among others, by Kinsey; Howells 1981;[4] Abel, Mittleman & Becker 1985;[5] Knight et al. 1985;[6] Brongersma 1990;[7] McConaghy 1993;[8] Ward et al. 1995;[9] Hoffmann 1996;[10] Seikowski 1999.[11]

Use of the term pedophile to describe all child sexual offenders is seen as problematic by some people,[12][13][14] especially when viewed from a medical standpoint, as the majority of sex crimes against children are perpetrated by situational offenders rather than people sexually preferring prepubertal children.[15][16][17] Nevertheless, some researchers, such as Howard E. Barbaree,[18] have endorsed the use of actions as a sole criterion for the diagnosis of pedophilia as a means of taxonomic simplification, rebuking the American Psychiatric Association's standards as "unsatisfactory".

Some individuals,[19][20] such as Dr. Fred S. Berlin,[21][22] assert sexual attraction to children to be a sexual orientation in itself. Berlins asserts, "I think it can be both a disorder and an orientation."[23] Dan Markussen, spokesman for Danish Pedophile Association, argues that "sexual orientation is defined as a lifelong attraction, which pedophilia obviously is."[23]

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Answer 3

It comes from the Greek words:

Pedo (Paidi) meaning Child
and
FILE (File) - meaning Friend or in this case "a favour of"

So it is in "favour of a child" and not in the nice way!

Answer 4

The act or fantasy on the part of an adult of engaging in sexual activity with a child or children

Answer 5

it means your dad likes/wants to have sex with someone under the age of 18

Answer 6

well means that is a man or a woman who has sexual relations with a minor with a girl or with a boy.

Answer 7

I worry about people that don't know. They claim ignorance after molesting children.

Answer 8

I think its someone activly looking for a victum constatnly...