Cognitive and cultural embeddedness: combining institutional economics and economic sociology
According to this, pederasty is sexual relations between two males, especially when one of them is a minor. Other definitions, like the one that JSBangs found, differ slightly. But otherwise, I think you answered the question yourself: pedophile refers to the attraction, while pederasty refers to the act itself.
), in the sense of sexual relations between men and boys. In modern academic parlance, pederasty is used as a generic term to describe the cultural phenomenon of erotic relationships between men and adolescent boys, wherever encountered.n Roman times, pederasty largely lost its status as a ritual part of education â a process already begun by the increasingly sophisticated and cosmopolitan Greeks â and was instead seen as an activity primarily driven by one's sexual desires and competing with desire for women.