paedophile-phobia

See also: paedophilephobia

English

Etymology

From paedophile +‎ -phobia.

Noun

paedophile-phobia (uncountable)

  1. Commonwealth form of pedophilophobia.
    • 2004 February 2, Tom Lubbock, “It’s a mad, mad world: We may all be going bonkers but were we ever any more rational?”, in Evening Standard, West End final edition, London, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 43:
      Leadership gurus, self-help manuals, management consultants, thinktanks, alternative medicine, postmodernist academics who say all truth is relative, creation science, horoscopes, Holocaust-deniers, "trickledown" economists, paranoid Yankee imperialists, paranoid anti-Americans, al Qaeda and its Western fellow-travellers, The Third Way, globalisers and anti-globalisers, apocalyptic world-history trendspotters, therapy-addicts, Di-mania, Bible Code crackers, New Agers, paedophile-phobia, people who think they've been abducted by aliens, the National Lottery, the dotcom bubble — these are just some of the manifestations of the crazy irrationality that, [Francis] Wheen reveals, has run rampage over the modern world.
      A review of Francis Wheen’s How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions, which does not use the term.
    • 2007 May 11, Mick Hume, “Portugal: let’s all make it worse”, in The Times‎[1], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 5 December 2008:
      When did child abduction become a spectator sport? Who benefits from seeing daily pictures of Madeleine McCann’s distraught mother clutching her missing child’s toy? And why are many experts and authorities preying on our fears to promote their own agenda? We have witnessed two different operations around the abduction of the three-year-old girl from an Algarve holiday apartment. There has been the secretive Portuguese investigation, apparently marred by infighting between police organisations. And then there has been the public “who’s to blame?” inquiry, where campaigners and pundits vie to use the case as a vehicle for point-scoring and finger-pointing. Some crusaders blame the Portuguese for not sharing Britain’s heightened state of paedophile-phobia.
    • 2007 June 11, Simon Barnes, “A grassroots remedy: It’s official: happiness increases and stress subsides when we enter the natural world. Simon Barnes agrees”, in The Times‎[2], London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 29 September 2025:
      But despite this, our children are growing up nature-deprived. I spent my boyhood climbing trees on Streatham Common, South London. These days, paedophile-phobia has robbed children of these ancient freedoms.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:paedophile-phobia.
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