No I'm not
Check any definition of 'paedophile', in any dictionary, and you'll see what it means. Granted, it's not what it *should* mean - and I mentioned as much. Pederasty is a specific subset, referring to a relationship between a man and a much younger boy.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 9:08, 1 reply)

At the very least you're a racist, then.
"paedophile" is to love children. Just as an Anglophile loves England, or a Francophile France.

It's not my fault the dictionary's wrong.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 9:14, closed)

and a haemophile?
Do they lie awake at night dreaming of the sweet caress of cold, hard iron?

I fully agree that the dictionary's techncially wrong in this case. Still, were I to walk into a crowded pub, and shout 'The vast majority of parents in here are PAEDOPHILES!' - I don't think people'd be forming a queue to warmly shake my hand, in thanks for acknowledging the love they hold for their offspring.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 9:25, closed)

No, no I don't imagine they would. The Great Unwashed have never really displayed a fondness for accurate etymology.
I'm surrogate-parentally fond of my nephews and neices; as so many uncles and aunts are.

I'm not sure how happy I'd be to be labelled as such, though.

But it is an interesting one.
( Je suis un vagabond is an unfunny, up your own arse middle class knob, Thu 15 Apr 2010, 9:29, closed)