Antedating of "Pedophile"

[Fred Shapiro]

pedophile (OED3 1949)

1941 _Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology_ XXXII. 366  We do not know
exactly why one person psychophysically infantile becomes an exhibitionist and
the other becomes a pedophile.

Fred Shapiro


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