Pedosadist

A spelling variant with its own glossary entry, pointing to paedosadist. The substance is there. Marsh's argument is that paedophilia is not a sexual orientation, since an orientation involves attraction between consenting partners and an attraction that can only be enacted as rape does not qualify. Someone attracted to rape has sexual sadism disorder or paraphilic coercive disorder, and someone attracted to the rape of children is a paedosadist, offending or non-offending according to whether they act. She supplies the reframing for readers who treat the DSM as authoritative and states her own preference plainly, which is the legal term, child rapist. That the registry carries both spellings as separate entries is a decision about coverage rather than about content, and the entry is retained here for the same reason, so that a reader arriving at either spelling finds the argument rather than an absence. The variant is worth one further note. Marsh's writing uses British and Canadian spelling throughout, so the American form is included as a courtesy to readers rather than as her own usage, which is consistent with how the glossary handles other spelling differences.

British and American spelling of Greek-derived medical terms diverged in the 1900s, with the ae digraph retained in British usage and simplified in American, which affects paediatric, anaemia, foetus and this term alike. Style guides on both sides treat the variants as equivalent. Nothing in the substance differs, and the entry exists because a glossary that indexes by spelling has to carry both forms to be usable.