Definition of "pedophilia"

As noted earlier, pedophilia was cited as both an aggravating and a mitigating circumstance by trial judges, as was the absence of pedophilia.

2007, Margaret Mary Wright, Judicial decision making in child sexual abuse cases, page 122

Sometimes a man with pedophilia is content to stroke the child's hair, but he may also manipulate the child's genitalia, [...]

2009, Ann Kring, Sheri Johnson, Gerald C. Davison, Abnormal Psychology

Fifteen months later, a committee of the congregation found that he had sexually abused several boys within the congregation. […] The fact that Alger committed pedophilia at the age of thirty-four casts a shadow over his subsequent yearning for relationships with boys and young men, but there is no evidence of any later misconduct.

1998, Andrew L. Kaufman, Cardozo, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, page 25

Entire books have been written about the role of scandal in US politics (Garment, 1992). Offenses include smoking marijuana, hiring illegal aliens, plagiarizing, sexually harassing others, engaging in pedophilia, […]

2005, Carol Weiss Lewis, Stuart Gilman, The ethics challenge in public service: a problem-solving guide, 2nd edition, San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, page 88

It's quite another (a bad idea) to expect amateurs to figure out who is telling the truth about Iraq, or which priests have committed pedophilia.

2007, Todd Oppenheimer, “Read All about It -- but Where, Exactly?”, in SFGate‎, Hearst Communications