Word of the day: pederasty

The word of the day is pederasty:

1. sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor.

"sodomy with a boy," 1609, from Mod.L. pæderastia, from Gk. paiderastia "love of boys," from paiderastes "pederast," from pais (gen. paidos) "child, boy" (see pedo-) + erastes "lover," from erasthai "to love." Pederast is 1730s, from Fr. pédéraste, from Gk. paiderastes.

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"Who today would want to live in the Greece of Plato and Socrates, with its slavery, constant warfare, institutionalized pederasty, and relentless culling of surplus population?"

 - Charles Mann, 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus