Pederast vs. Pedophilia — What's the Difference?

A man who has sexual relations, especially anal intercourse, with a boy.

Pedophilia (alternatively spelt paedophilia) is a psychiatric disorder in which an adult or older adolescent experiences a primary or exclusive sexual attraction to prepubescent children. Although girls typically begin the process of puberty at age 10 or 11, and boys at age 11 or 12, criteria for pedophilia extend the cut-off point for prepubescence to age 13.

A man who is engaged in an erotic relationship with an adolescent boy; a practitioner of pederasty.

The deriving of sexual gratification from sexual fantasies or acts involving a child.

One guilty of pederasty; a sodomite.

Sexual attraction to children by adults.

A man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner

(by extension) Sexual activity between adults and children; the act of child molestation.

A sexual perversion in which children rather than adults most strongly excite sexual desire, and are used as sexual partners.

Sexual activity of an adult with a child