 “[T]o penetrate phallically is to dominate, subjugate, and ultimately to humiliate”

From as best as can be understood , pederasty, or amorous and sexual relations between men and adolescent boys, has, to an unknown extent, been prevalent throughout numerous cultures over various periods of time .Pederasty is easily confused with paedophilia; the latter is characterized by a sexual attraction to children who have not yet begun pubertal development.Some too draw a distinction between what might be called a biological definition of childhood and a socio-legal one.