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.
Pederasty in ancient Greece was a socially acknowledged erotic relationship between an adult male (the erastes) and a younger male (the eromenos) usually in his teens.he historian's job is to present pederasty and all, to make sure that â¦ we come face to face with the way the glory that was Greece was part of a world in which many of our own core values find themselves challenged rather than reinforced. Contents.