Meanings
- not comparablerarePresenting children in an erotic light; concerned with paederastic feelings or relationships.
In this case the fluctuation of the style in a single line is localized on a small scale, but it may of course pederotic poem?
1986, Bernd Effe, Theokrit und die griechische Bukolik, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, →ISBN, page 31, →ISBN2 more examples
Now came the quid pro quo of patronage, and the first painting M did for his cardinal betrayed a panicky sense of claustrophobia as M was gently directed into a musical allegory slash paederotic fantasy that belonged to no time or place.
2001, Peter Robb, M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio, Picador, →ISBN, page 57, →ISBNThe Greek Anthology, in fact, not only demonstrates — without the shadow of a doubt — the continuity and vitality of paederotic poetry, but provides valuable information on the social rules governing this type of love, which included, in pride of place, the question of the suitable age: I delight in the prime of a boy of twelve, but one of thirteen is much more desirable.
2002, Eva Cantarella, Cormac Ó Cuilleanain, Bisexuality in the ancient world, Yale University Press, →ISBN, page 37, →ISBN
Origin
paedo- (“child”) + -erotic, on the pattern of homoerotic.
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