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- noun British Alternative spelling of
pederast .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a man who has sex (usually sodomy) with a boy as the passive partner
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Examples
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And if the notion of the macho penetrating paederast is a fantasy, as James Davidson has argued, does gender have the explanatory power over Greek sex that Halperin suggests it does?
The Uses and Abuses of Historicism: Halperin and Shelley on the Otherness of Ancient Greek Sexuality 2006
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He was a festivel-cotumed paederast who would drive over in a convertable and bring his boy.
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In 1916 he was captured subjected to beatings and homosexual rape by the Turkish governor of Deraa, ''an ardent paederast'' Lawrence's own term.
How stupid is it for Obama supporters to question the truth of McCain's "cross in the dirt" story? Ann Althouse 2008
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Ah, the cut-throat, the Saracen, the old paederast: into the ditch with him! "
South Wind Norman Douglas 1910
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