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Noun:

• A general affection for children, the opposite of pedophobia. The erotic affection for children was originally (by Richard von Krafft-Ebing, 1886, ''Psychopathia sexualis'') called with a specifying adjective, ''peadophilia erotica'' in Latin.
• A sexual or erotic feelings of desires directed towards children in general.
• Overt sexual acts directed towards children.
• psychiatry A paraphilia consisting of a primary adult sexual attraction to prepubescent children (''DSM-IV: Over a period of at least six months, recurrent, intense, sexually arousing fantasies, sexual urges or behaviors involving sexual activity with a prepubescent child or children'')
• Whatever assumed manifestation of erotic feelings or desires directed towards children, for example using of child pornography, involvement in age unequal interrelationship with a child or an young person etc.