girllove

English

Etymology

From girl +‎ love.

Noun

girllove (uncountable)

1. (euphemistic) Paedophilic, hebephilic, or ephebophilic love towards girls.

   Coordinate term: boylove

   Hypernym: childlove

   • 1981, Burton M Leiser, Values in conflict: life, liberty, and the rule of law:

     Now, it is unlikely, had a large number of professional men in Boston been charged with sexual conduct with fourteen-year-old girls, that people would have rallied to their support waving the banner of "girllove".

   • 2009, "Ignored By The Liberal Mass Media", The Duke University Child Rape Case Proves Pedophilia Isn't an "Orientation" (on Usenet newsgroup alt.politics.homosexuality):

     I believe that the vast majority of heterosexual men have an attraction to prepubescent and pubescent girls, they just cannot bring themselves to accept it. Girllove has always been common, just look at Japan and the girl modeling industry in eastern europe.

   • 2012, "Nigel Oldfield", Re: After Savile, every British man should worry about his past (on Usenet newsgroup uk.legal):

     Just highlighting it is an issue of boylove, not girllove.

Related terms

• girllover