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What does pederasty mean?

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Noun
  1. Erotic love, sexually expressed or chaste, between a man and an adolescent boy; analogous to korephilia.
  2. (archaic) Anal intercourse in general, usually between a man and an adolescent boy.
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Hence the fear of over-population caused Aristotle to recommend to the men abstinence from their wives, and pederasty, instead.
It is very doubtful whether he was a Huguenot, and whenever in his works he refers to pederasty it is with strong disapproval.
Gore Vidal adapted the Tennessee Williams play that concerns lobotomy, pederasty, and cannibalism.
We often meet with pederasty without a trace of inversion of the sexual appetite.
He got away with it, as so many other Victorians got away with pederasty and nympholepsy.
The relations that from eunuchism led to pederasty are very easy of explanation.

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