One of the foremost contemporary sexual taboos, it’s been both condemned by law, and fetishized in the media, as immortalised in Lolita. Pedophilia is a psychiatric disorder where a person is sexually attracted to prepubescent children. The word alone leaves you with a heavy, sinking feeling in your stomach, and for good reason too. As Pride 2018 wrapped up, it brought forth an era of the sexual revolution with debates regarding ‘cross-generational sexual relations’, a phrase to re-brand pedophilia.
