"少年愛" meaning in Japanese

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Noun

IPA: [ɕo̞ːnẽ̞ɰ̃a̠i] Forms: 少年愛 [canonical] (ruby: (しょう), (ねん), (あい)), shōnen'ai [romanization]
Etymology: 少(しょう)年(ねん) (shōnen, “boy”) + 愛(あい) (ai, “love”) Etymology templates: {{ja-compound|少%年|しょう%ねん|愛|あい|t1=boy|t2=love}} 少(しょう)年(ねん) (shōnen, “boy”) + 愛(あい) (ai, “love”) Head templates: {{ja-noun|しょうねんあい}} 少(しょう)年(ねん)愛(あい) • (shōnen'ai)
  1. pederasty, love toward adolescent boys Categories (topical): Pedophilia
    Sense id: en-少年愛-ja-noun-dYJ0Dj1h Disambiguation of Pedophilia: 67 33
  2. (manga) yaoi, boy's love, shounen ai (a subgenre of manga depicting love affairs between young men or boys) Categories (topical): Japanese fiction
    Sense id: en-少年愛-ja-noun--IwoVd4w Categories (other): Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Pages with entries, Japanese entries with incorrect language header, Japanese links with redundant wikilinks, Japanese terms with 3 kanji, Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys, Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 53 1 46 Disambiguation of Japanese entries with incorrect language header: 3 97 Disambiguation of Japanese links with redundant wikilinks: 4 96 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with 3 kanji: 12 88 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 4 96 Disambiguation of Japanese terms with redundant sortkeys: 4 96 Topics: comics, literature, manga, media, publishing
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: 少年愛嗜好 (shōnen'aishikō) (ruby: (しょう), (ねん), (あい), (), (こう))
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          "ref": "2008, Kiryū Misao, Sekai jōshi taizen: ‘ai’ to ‘shi’ to ‘eros’ no bigaku [World collection of lovers’ suicide: aesthetics of ‘love’ and ‘death’ and ‘eros’], page 1:",
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          "text": "人間の肉体、とくに均整のとれた青年の肉体はもっとも美しいものとして称賛された。同性の裸身に触れる機会の多いことは、いやでも若者に少年愛を目覚めさせずにはおかなかった。",
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