pederasty

English

Alternative forms

• paederasty (Commonwealth)
• pæderasty (Commonwealth, dated)

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek παιδεραστία (paiderastía, “love of boys”), from παιδεραστής (paiderastḗs, “pederast”), from παῖς (paîs, “child, son, boy”) + ἐραστής (erastḗs, “lover”), from ἔραμαι (éramai, “to love”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ə.ɹəs.ti/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈpɛd.ə.ɹæs.ti/, /ˈpi.də.ɹæs.ti/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

pederasty (usually uncountable, plural pederasties) (American spelling)

1. Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy.

   Antonym: (erotic love between a woman and a girl) korephilia

   • 1962 [1891, 1884], Friedrich Engels, “II. Die Familie”, in Der Ursprung der Familie, des Privateigentums und des Staats (Marx-Engels-Werke; 21), Dietz Verlag Berlin, page 67; English translation in “II. The Family”, in The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State, Foreign Languages Press, 1978, page 74:

     […] but the degradation of the women avenged itself on the men and degraded them also, till they fell into the abominable practice of pederasty and degraded alike their gods and themselves with the myth of Ganymede.

     [original: […] aber die Entwürdigung der Frauen rächte sich an den Männern und entwürdigte auch sie, bis sie versanken in die Widerwärtigkeit der Knabenliebe und ihre Götter entwürdigten wie sich selbst durch den Mythus von Ganymed.]

2. (archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.

Usage notes

• Originally referred to formal practices mandated by Greek customs and laws. Often used in a modern sense for either lawful or transgressive inter-generational love relationships.
• Often used colloquially to describe sexual abuse that is perpetrated by adult men on underage boys (see pedophilia).

Synonyms

• boylove (euphemistic)

Related terms

• pederast
• pederastic
• pedophile

Translations

pederasty

• Armenian: պեդիկացիա (pedikacʻia), արվամոլություն (hy) (arvamolutʻyun)
• Azerbaijani: pederastiya, oğlanbazlıq
• Bengali: পেডেরাস্টি (peḍerasṭi)
• Breton: pederastiezh
• Bulgarian: педерастия f (pederastija)
• Catalan: pederàstia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雞姦 / 鸡奸 (zh) (jījiān), 男色 (zh) (nánsè), 好男色 (hàonánsè), 孌童戀 / 娈童恋 (luántóngliàn), 少年愛 / 少年爱 (shàonián'ài)

• Czech: pederastie (cs) f
• Danish: pæderasti c
• Dutch: knapenliefde (nl) f, knapenschennis f
• Estonian: pederastia
• Finnish: pederastia (fi)
• French: pédérastie (fr) f
• Georgian: პედერასტია (ṗederasṭia), მამათმავლობა (mamatmavloba)
• German: Päderastie (de) f
• Greek: παιδεραστία (el) f (paiderastía)

  Ancient: παιδεραστίᾱ f (paiderastíā)

• Hebrew: פֶּדֶרַסְטְיָה f (pederastya)
• Ido: pederasteso (io)
• Indonesian: perjantanan (id)
• Irish: péidearastacht f
• Italian: pederastia f
• Japanese: 少年愛 (しょうねんあい, shōnen'ai), 少年愛嗜好 (しょうねんあいしこう, shōnen'aishikō)
• Lithuanian: pederastija f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: pederasti

• Persian: بچه‌بازی (fa)
• Polish: efebofilia f, (historical) pederastia (pl) f
• Portuguese: pederastia (pt) f
• Romanian: pederastie (ro) f
• Russian: педерасти́я (ru) f (pederastíja), мужело́жство (ru) n (muželóžstvo)
• Slovak: pederastia f
• Spanish: pederastia (es) f
• Swedish: pederasti (sv) c
• Turkish: oğlancılık (tr)

archaic: homosexual anal sex — see sodomy