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Pedophilia is a serious psychological condition in which an adult feels sexual attraction toward children. It is recognized as a disorder by doctors and mental health professionals, and acting on it by abusing a child is a serious crime in every country. It is a clinical and legal term, not a word used casually in everyday conversation.
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組成From Greek paido- (child) + -philia (a strong attraction or fondness, a piece also seen in other clinical terms).
同家族的字
- pedophilea pedophile is a person with this attraction — built from the same Greek roots, child + loving
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
pedophilianoun/ˌpiː.dəˈfɪ.li.ə/
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Sexual attraction by adults and adolescents to children, specifically prepubescent children.
- As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.
- Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]
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Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.
- Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. […] The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct.
- Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia, […]
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。