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Answer for the clue "Sexual activity of an adult with a child ", 10 letters:
pedophilia

Word definitions for pedophilia in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1900, from Greek pais (genitive paidos ) "child" (see pedo- ) + philos "loving" see -phile ). First attested in an abstract of a report by Krafft-Ebing.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. sexual activity of an adult with a child [syn: paedophilia ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 sexual attraction to children by adults. 2 Sexual activity between adults and children.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Pedophilia or 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 ...

Usage examples of pedophilia.

GLAAD began issuing bulletins and alerts almost daily, seeking to steer the direction of media coverage and encourage journalists not to stray too far from the approved line that the scandal was indeed about pedophilia, and that it had come about because of the see-no-evil policies of that despised enemy of gay rights, the Catholic Church.

After he admitted on national television to engaging in pedophilia, in the hopes that his confession would convince the authorities that the Family should be investigated, his plan backfired and he was depicted as a pervert by the cool, calm, and well-trained Family public relations men.

Defendant has repeatedly made ugly, false, and unsubstantiated claims against the family, including claims of pedophilia, drug use and dealing, and financial fraud, all of which have been rejected by the Court in Deschutes County.

Really, the spirit world is like pedophilia or necrophilia: I have no experience with it so I am completely unable to take it seriously.

Stock countered with his own diagnosis: borderline personality disorder, homosexual pedophilia, and sexual sadism that led him to inflict pain on others in order to sexually gratify himself.

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We have a dead body in the living room, shots fired at cops, a hostage situation, and pedophilia leading back to Little Girl Blue.

Thailand, who sported a bitchy wit, referred to the pair of them as the Flying Pedophilia Brothers, a nickname to which they both objected.

The team was deep into studying the neurological roots of pedophilia, intending to make that the next condition they conquered.

In the court cases involving guardianship and conservatorship of the couple’s son, the Defendant has repeatedly made ugly, false, and unsubstantiated claims against the family, including claims of pedophilia, drug use and dealing, and financial fraud, all of which have been rejected by the Court in Deschutes County.

The war on kiddie porn is now getting into high gear, though I was once assured by Wardell Pomeroy, Alfred Kinsey's colleague in sex research, that pedophilia was barely a blip on the statistical screen, somewhere down there with farm lads and their animal friends.

Human beings today commit more murders, rapes, pedophilia, kidnapings, hate crimes, acts of terrorism and just plain dishonest, dishonorable, self-serving sins against all forms of life than the free world has ever seen.