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Pederasty or paederasty refers to an erotic relationship between an adolescent boy and an adult male outside his immediate family. Pederasty has existed from earliest times through a variety of customs and practices within different cultures. Pederasty has been criminalized at various times in history, and today its legal status in most countries is determined by whether or not the boy has reached the local age of consent.

In the history of Europe, its most structured cultural manifestation was Athenian pederasty,^{[citation needed]} and became most prominent in the 5th century BC. Greek pederasty's various forms were the subject of philosophic debates in which the carnal type was unfavorably compared with erotic yet spiritual and moderate forms.

Western societies today usually regard pederasty as a form of child abuse on a par with other forms of paedophilia. Some argue that the term paedophilia should be restricted to attraction to pre-adolescent children; but there is no general acceptance of this.

Starting with Geoffrey Gorer, pederasty has been seen as one of the three main types of homosexuality. Gorer distinguished it from pedophilia, which he defined as a separate fourth type that he described as "grossly pathological in all societies of which we have record." According to Gorer, the main characteristic of homosexual pederasty is the age difference (either of generation or age-group) between the partners. In his study of native cultures pederasty appears typically as a passing stage in which the adolescent is the beloved of an older male, remains as such until he reaches a certain developmental threshold, after which he in turn takes on an adolescent beloved of his own. This model is judged by Gorer as socially viable, i.e. not likely to give rise to psychological discomfort or neuroses for all or most males. He adds that in many societies, pederasty has been the main subject of the arts and the main source of tender and elevated emotions.^[1]

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