Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesAn American Psychiatric Association clinical diagnostic classification of pedophilia, APA defines it as intense sexual fantasies about and attraction to prepubescent children by a person of 16 years or older for a period of 6 months or more.First known use 2013
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The behavioral expression of pedophilic disorder often involves nonconsenting victims, since prepubescent children cannot legally give consent to sexual activity. However, the diagnostic criteria for pedophilic disorder have retained their DSM-IV-TR wording and thus differ from the DSM-5 diagnostic criteria for the other paraphilic disorders involving nonconsenting victims.
2014 June, Michael B. First, “DSM-5 and paraphilic disorders”, in The journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, volume 42, number 2, American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, →ISSN, →PMIDSynonyms: pedophilia, pedophilia
Synonyms & antonyms
nounAn American Psychiatric Association clinical diagnostic classification of pedophilia, APA defines it as intense sexual fantasies about and attraction to prepubescent children by a person of 16 years or older for a period of 6 months or more.
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