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Pedophilia: nature or nurture?

Name: Anonymous 2005-01-14 21:33

Have you ever known an ex-pedophile?

Name: Anonymous 2005-10-08 0:45

>>273

Interesting theory. So I looked it up:

Of all the terms related to pedophilia (e.g., pedophile, pedophiliac, pedophilia...), pedophilia is the oldest. Here is the oldest source cited by the Oxford English Dictionary:

1906 H. ELLIS Stud. Psychol. Sex V. i. 11 Paidophilia or the love of children..may be included under this head [sc. abnormality].
Source: OED.com

I don't know who H. Ellis is, but he's not Freud... and he appears to be defining pedophilia. Even if he didn't coin the term, at the time of usage, it is obviously new enough that even the technical audience that would have been reading his book wasn't aware of what it meant. If you flip through any psychology textbook published in the last couple of decades, I assure you that they assume you know what a pedophile is.

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