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.
a combining form with the meanings âmolding, formationâ âsurgical repair, plastic surgery,â used in the formation of compound words: angioplasty; galvanoplasty; heteroplasty. Origin of -plasty. Greek.