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pedosexual

pedosexual adjective: being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.

Adjective

pedosexual (not comparable)

  1. (uncommon) Being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.
    • 1994, T. P. Smith, Effects of the child's relative age appearance and attractiveness on vulnerability to pedosexual interactions (Doctoral dissertation, University of Texas at Austin, 1993; published by Dissertation Abstracts International, 54(12), 6472B)

Noun

pedosexual (plural pedosexuals)

  1. (uncommon) An adult who is sexually active with children.
    • There, pedosexuals are helped by a group of volunteers after their detention. The resulting social network has been shown to cut reoffending rates quite considerably.2014, D. F. Swaab, We Are Our Brains: A Neurobiography of the Brain, →ISBN

Forms of pedosexual

pluralpedosexuals

Origin of pedosexual

From pedo- (“child”) + sexual.

Questions about pedosexual

What does pedosexual mean?
Pedosexual means being or constituting pedosexuality, sexual activity between an adult and a child.
What part of speech is pedosexual?
Pedosexual can be an adjective or a noun.

Words near pedosexual in the dictionary

  1. pedoscope
  2. pedoscopes
  3. pedosediment
  4. pedosedimentary
  5. pedosediments
  6. pedosexual
  7. pedosexuality
  8. pedosexuals
  9. pedosphere
  10. pedospheres
  11. pedostache

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