Crossword clues for pederasty
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pederasty \Ped"er*as`ty\, n. [Gr. paiderasti`a: cf. F. p['e]d['e]rastie.] The crime against nature; sodomy.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"sodomy of a man with a boy," c.1600, from French pédérastie or directly from Modern Latin pæderastia, from Greek paiderastia "love of boys," from paiderastes "pederast, lover of boys," from pais (genitive paidos) "child, boy" (see pedo-) + erastes "lover," from erasthai "to love" (see Eros).
Wiktionary
n. 1 erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy. 2 (context archaic English) anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.
WordNet
n. sexual relations between a man and a boy (usually anal intercourse with the boy as a passive partner) [syn: paederasty]
Wikipedia
Pederasty or paederasty ( or ) is a (usually erotic) homosexual relationship between an adult male and a pubescent or adolescent male. The word pederasty derives from Greek () "love of boys", a compound derived from (pais) "child, boy" and (erastēs) "lover". In French, however, "pédérastie" has been used as a synonym for homosexuality between adult males (see Histoire du mot pédérastie).
Historically, pederasty has existed as a variety of customs and practices within different cultures. The status of pederasty has changed over the course of history, at times considered an ideal and at other times a crime. In the history of Europe, its most structured cultural manifestation was Athenian pederasty, and became most prominent in the 6th century BC. Greek pederasty's various forms were the subject of philosophic debates in which the purely carnal type was unfavorably compared with erotic friendships and moderate forms, known as Sophrosyne.
The legal status of pederasty in most countries is determined by whether or not the boy has reached the local age of consent, and as to whether such contact is considered abusive to the young person.
Usage examples of "pederasty".
As well be imagined, pederasty has a fine field in this town, where the passions are kept under lock and key.
Buried deep in the anthracite core of my being is a personal trait so hideous, so confounding, a conceit so terrible in its repercussions, that it makes sodomy, pederasty, and barratry on the high seas seem as tame as a Frances Parkinson Keyes novel.
They keep on preaching that pederasty is comparatively unknown and entraps only a few, but many clever men endeavour to be entrapped, and end by thinking it so pleasant that they prefer these monsters to the most beautiful women.
Woundings, slashings, cannibalism, pederasty, paedophilia, intestinal rape, sadistic penetrations of infants and the ageing became commonplace.
I asked him what he thought of the charge of pederasty brought against the bard.
He laughed at the police and the cheated husbands, indulged in Venus and Bacchus to excess, sacrificed to the god of pederasty, and gamed incessantly.
He spoke of his magical prescriptions, of the pride with which he foretold death, of his probable pederasty, of his libertine readings, of his life without God.
This Mocenigo was the same that acquired such a reputation at Paris by his leanings to pederasty, a vice or taste which the French hold in horror.
In spite of his reputation for pederasty, Mocenigo was much liked at Madrid.
Porn or pederasty one can sell back to the dealers, which eases the finance because this stuff comes damned dear.
In the corner a huge bookshelf stuffed with ancient leather tomes on pederasty and all things Greek towered like a massive, shadow-dripping child molester.
I have never been able to believe that Baldanders practiced pederasty as that term is usually understood, though it may well be that he had hoped to do so when the boy grew larger still.
Now German customers are behind the rapid expansion of pederasty in particular: little Italian boys have a great reputation in Germany and the Krupp affair was an advertisement for them.
The two little girls were both as expert as each other: they told me all sorts of things about pederasty and lesbianism in this city - they went in for the latter with each other and with girl friends.
There are some that like little girls, a feminine leaning towards pederasty in the proper sense of the word.