Within the domain of psychology and history, the term pederasty involves a publicly accepted relationship of an adult man and an underage boy during the certain periods of history, most notably in Classical Greece. Traditionally, it included a mentorship and knowledge, some of which might have included sexual interaction.
In Greek society, this custom of pederasty was framed in the context of “molding” the “youth males” in the “sociocentric” tentacles of adulthood, but along with loyalty and discipline, a host of “shared” values. Their philosophers, including Plato, used to reflect pederasty in terms of “mystic”, love, divine beauty, and virtue, though there was variance in perspectives. From a psychological and ethical lens in modernity, pederasty is recognized as profoundly problematic and dangerous deemed as an imbalance and exploitation of neotenous individuals.
Most adult child sexual relationships produce damage with lingering impacts on mental, self-trust, and self-esteem. Unlike “traditional” framings, the term is now looked at through the “child” protection, trauma, and abuse “shielding” paradigm. Thus psychology considers neither pederasty nor accept cultural practice nor pederasty in the sense of exploitation, which for sexual exploitation, is feminized. It underscores the necessity of silencing the defenders of children and adolescents, to accept the fact that in the past, many civilizations interpreted the practice in a rather different way.