GLOSSARY OF TERMS

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Abduction: to kidnap or carry a person away by force, also used in sex play

Abrasions: scratching or rubbing off skin

Abstinence: celibacy

Acmegenesis: orgasm

Acomoclitic: preference for hairless genitals

Acousticophilia: arousal from sounds

Acrophilia: arousal from heights or high altitudes

Acrotomophilia: sexual preference for amputees

Actirasty: arousal from exposure to sun's rays

Acucullophallia: circumcision

Acupressure: pressure points on body that induce certain responses, some sexual

Adolescentilism: cross-dressing or playing the role of an adolescent

Adultery: having sex outside a marriage  

Agalmatophilia: arousal from statues or manikins; also called pygmalionism

Agenobiosis: married couple who consent to live together without sex

Agonophilia: person who is aroused by partner pretending to struggle

Agoraphilia: arousal from open spaces or having sex in public

Agrexophilia: arousal from others knowing you are having sex

Albutophilia: arousal from water

Algophilia: arousal from experiencing pain

Aliphineur: person using lotion to arouse partner

Alloerasty: use of nudity of another person to arouse partner

Allopellia: having orgasm from watching others engaging in sex

Allorgasmia: arousal from fantasizing about someone other than one's partner

Allotriorasty: arousal from partners of other nations or races

Alphamegamia: arousal from partner of different age group

Altocalciphilia: high heel fetish

Alvinolagnia: stomach fetish

Amatripsis: masturbation by rubbing labia together

Amaurophilia: preference for a blind or blindfolded sex partner

Amomaxia: sex in a parked car

Ambisexual: bi-sexual

Amelotasis: attraction to absence of limb

Amelotation: loss of a limb

Amokoscisia: arousal or sexual frenzy with desire to slash or mutilate women

Amphisexual: bi-sexual

Amychesis: act of scratching partner during sexual passion

Anaclitism: arousal from items used as infant

Analinctus: licking anus

Analingus: rimming or penetration of anus with tongue

Anasteemaphilia: attraction to taller or shorter partners

Androgyny: having both male & female characteristics

Androgynophilia: bi-sexual

Androidism: arousal from robots with human features

Andromania: nymphomania

Androminetophilia: arousal from female partner who dresses like male

Androsodomy: anal sex with a male partner

Anililagnia: arousal from older female sex partner

Anisonogamist: attraction to either older or younger partner

Anocratism: anal sex

Amomaxia: sex in parked car

Anomeatia: anal sex with a female partner

Anophelorastia: arousal from defiling or ravaging a partner

Anophilemia: kissing anus

Anoraptus: rapist who only attacks elderly women

Antholagnia: arousal from smelling flowers

Anthropomorphism: attributing human characteristics to half-human half-animal characters

Anthropophagolagnia: rape with cannibalism

Anthropophagy: cannibalism

Apellous: circumcision

Aphallatia: celibacy

Aphrodisiacs: drugs stimulating a sexual response

Apistia: adultery

Apotemnophilia: person who has sexual fantasies about loosing a limb

Arachnephilia: arousal from spiders

Arrhenothigmophilous: nymphomania

Arsometry: anal sex

Artificial insemination: deposit of sperm into the vagina by methods other than male penetration of the vagina

Asceticism: religious self-denial often including celibacy

Asphyxiaphilia: arousal from lack of oxygen

Asthenolagnia: arousal from weakness or being humiliated

Astyphia: impotence

Asynodia: celibacy particularly due to impotence

Auctions: public sale with item or sex slave going to highest bidder

Autagonistophilia: exhibitionism, arousal from exposing naked body or genitals to strangers while on stage or while being photographed

Autassassinophilia: arousal from orchestrating one's own death by the hands of another

Autoerotic Asphyxia: arousal from oxygen deprivation and sometimes risk of dying

Autogynephilia: arousal from crossdressing

Automasochism: arousal from inflicting intense sensations or pain on one's own body

Autoerotica: self induced arousal (i.e. fantasies or other aids)

Automysophilia: arousal from being dirty or defiled

Autonepiophilia: infantilism; arousal from dressing or being treated like infant

Autopederasty: person inserting their own penis into their anus

Autophagy: self-cannibalism or eating own flesh

Autosadism: infliction of pain or injury on oneself

Avisodomy: breaking neck of bird while penetrating it for sex

Axillism: penis penetrating an arm pit

Ball dancing: bell dancing; self flagellation by hanging fruit from hooks in skin

Bardajes: young gay male lover

Barosmia: arousal from smell

Basoexia: arousal from kissing

Bath house: commercial baths, some of which allow sex on premises

Bed of Nails: lying on a bed of nails for sensory enhancement

Bee stings: the use of bees, such as to sting genitals

Bell dancing: self-flagellation with bells or other ornaments hanging the skin

Belonephilia: arousal from use of needles

Bestiality: zoophilia; sex with animals

Bestialsadism: cruelty or mutilation of animals

Bi-Sexuality: people with sexual attraction for both sexes

Biastophilia: those preferring to violently rape their victims

Bigynist: sex between one male and two females

Bihari surgery: cutting ligament above penis to make it appear longer

Bindings: wrapping feet or genitals with string or lace

Bivirist: sex between one female and two males

Blastolagnia: person aroused by young females

Blindfolding: covering the eyes

Blood Sports: sex games which involve blood

Borderline self-mutilator: automasochism

Body Painting: temporary designs drawn on body

Body Worship: sex game where partner is made to adore another's body

Bondage: physical or mental restriction of partner

Bordellos: houses of prostitution

Bottom: passive partner who experiences stimuli during sex games, masochist, slave, submissive

Botulinonia: using a sausage as a dildo

Bouginonia: female masturbation from the use of objects such as dildos that stretch open the vagina

Brachioprotic eroticism: a deep form of fisting where the arm enters the anus

Bradycubia: slow movement during penetration

Branding: burning patterns or initials into flesh

Buggery: anal sex

Bundling: partners sleeping together clothed and without sex

Bushie Mall: agoraphilia; sex in an open area

Butt plugs: anal inserts used for masturbation

Candaulism: spouse who watches partner having sex with someone else

Caning: whipping that uses a switch or cane to discipline partner

Capnolagnia: arousal from watching others smoke

Castration: removal of the scrotum, testicles, ovaries, or penis

Cat Fighting: women fighting without rules and often tearing off each other's clothing

Catamites: young gay male lovers

Cataphilist: male submitting to female

Catatasis: stretching of the penis

Catheters: insertion of plastic tube into urethra

Catheterophilia: arousal from use of catheters

Celibacy: abstinence from sex

Chaperon: person who escorts a young couple to ensure they don't engage in sex

Charms: objects used to bring good luck and ward off evil  

Chastity: sexual abstinence

Chastity Belts: leather or metal belts used to prevent genital penetration

Chemise Cagoule: long heavy night shirt with hole for penis

Chezolagnia: masturbating while defecating

Chipil: Couvade syndrome

Choreophilia: dancing to orgasmic release

Chrematistophilia: person aroused by having to pay for sex or having sex partner steal from them (see also harpaxophilia)

Chronophilia: arousal from passage of time; arousal from older partner

Chubby Chasers: people who are aroused by obesity in partner

Cicatrization: scarring

Circumcision: the removal of foreskin on genitals

Clamps: metal, plastic, or wood fasteners used on nipples or genitals

Claustrophilia: arousal from being confined in small space

Clitoridectomy: surgical removal of the clitoris

Clitorilingus: licking a clitoris

Clitoromania: nymphomania

Cock Rings: rings placed around the base of the male genitals to maintain erections

Cocktails: drinking of body secretions from a glass

Coitobalnism: sex in a bathtub

Coitolimia: tremendous sexual drive

Coitophobia: fear of sexual intercourse

Coitus: sexual penetration with orgasm

Coitus analis: anal sex

Coitus à Cheval: couple having sex on the back of an animal or one acting out role of horse

Coitus a Mammilla: penetration of penis between breasts

Coitus à Unda: sex or sex games in water

Coitus Intrafermoris: penetration between legs

Coitus reservatus: birth control method where male withdraws penis before ejaculation

Colobosis: mutilation or castration of penis

Condoms: latex or animal intestine used as shield to guard against skin-to-skin contact with partner's genitals

Constrictions: bondage using rows of strings

Compulsive cruising: compulsive search for sex partners

Computer sex: the use of computers for sex games, communication, and erotic photography

Commasculation: homosexuality

Concubinage: use of female slaves as sex partners; living with sex partner without being married

Confessions: Admitting a sin; in some cases to arouse potential partner

Coprography: writing obscene words or phrases, usually in public toilets

Coprolagnia: arousal from feces

Coprolalia: arousal from using obscene language or writing

Coprophagy: the consumption of feces

Coprophilia: arousal from playing with feces, also called scat

Coproscopist: arousal from watching a person defecate

Corephallism: anal sex with young girl

Corsetting: body modification or oxygen restriction from using corsets

Corvus: fellatio

Costumes: the use of costumes in sexual fantasy play

Courtesans: the mistress of a king or nobleman

Courtship: the period before marriage where a person tries to entice the other into a commitment

Couvade: custom where male mimics child birth or is confined at time of wife's delivery

Couvade syndrome: a male who experiences symptoms of pregnancy in sympathy for wife

Cratolagnia: arousal from strength of partner

Cross dressing: a person who wears the apparel of the opposite sex

Crurofact: leg fetish

Cryptoscopophilia: desire to see behavior of others in privacy of their home, not necessarily sexual

Cuckoldry: a man whose wife has sex or becomes impregnated by a man other than himself

Cunnilalia: to talk about female genitals

Cunnilingus: oral sex on a woman

Cupping: drawing blood to the surface of skin by placing heated glass jars onto the skin

Cutting: cicatrization, or scarring of skin for sexual purposes

Cyesolagnia: pregnant woman fetish

Cymbalism: lesbianism

Cynophilia: arousal from sex with dogs

Cyprieunia: sex with a prostitute

D'Eon, Chevalier: French cross-dresser from whom the term "Eonism" is derived

Dacnolagnomania: lust murder

Dacrylagnia: arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner

Dacryphilia: person who is aroused by seeing their partner cry

Dame de voyage: dolls designed for genital penetration, often used by sailors

Danse du ventre: erotic or fertility dancing; belly dance

Dating services: agencies arranging for strangers to meet each other, usually for a fee

Day belts: chastity device used for short day excursions

De Clerambault's syndrome: erotomania Defecolagnia: arousal from defecation

Defilement: arousal from partner or self becoming dirty or wet

Deliberate self-harm syndrome: automasochism

Dendrophilia: arousal from tree or fertility worship of them

Depilation: shaving, waxing, or other type of hair removal

Dermagraphism: marks left on the skin of a partner by biting, scratching or sucking

Dermaphilia: doraphilia; sexual stimulus from skin

Deviance: paraphilia; practice that deviates from the majority of society

Dildos and Plugs: instruments used for genital penetration

Dippoldism: sexual arousal from abusing children

Discipline: punishment and control of a partner in sex play

Diseases (STD or VD): sexually transmitted diseases, also called venereal diseases

Divertissement: paraphilia

Docking: slipping one partner's foreskin over the glans penis of another

Dogging: couples who engage in sex in their car while others watch from outside

Doleros: algophilia; arousal from pain

Dominance/Submission: power exchange between partners

Doraphilia: arousal from animal fur, leather, or skin

Douches: rinsing out the anus or vagina with liquids

Dowry: sum of money or goods paid to parents of future husband or wife

Drag queens: gay men who dress in female attire

Dungeons: rooms that are decorated for SM play

Dysfunctions: physical disorders relating to sex

Dysmorphophilia: arousal from deformed or physically impaired partners

Ecdemolagnia: arousal from traveling or being away from home

Ecdyosis: arousal from removing clothes in front of others

Ecorchement: flagellation

Ecouteurism: listening to others having sex without consent

Ederacinism: to tear out sex organs by the roots as in a frenzy or to punish oneself for sexual cravings

Ejaculatio praecox: premature ejaculation

Electric Shock: using electric shock for sensory enhancement

Electrophilia: arousal from electrical stimulus

Electrolysis: an electrical method of removing hair

Elopement: hasty and clandestine marriage without consent of family members

Emetophilia: Roman shower; arousal from vomit

Endytolagnia: arousal only from partners who are clothed

Endytophilia: arousal only from partners who are clothed

Enema: the insertion and expulsion of fluids into the anus

Enema cocktail: drinking purged contents of enema

Entomocism: the use of insects

Entomophilia: arousal from insects or using, them in sex play

Eonism: crossdressing

Eopareunia: engaging in sex while young

Ephebophilia: attraction to adolescent sex partner

Episioclisia: suturing of the labia majora; infibulation

Eproctolagniac: person aroused by flatulence

Eproctophilia: arousal from flatulence

Erotica: sexual literature and photos

Erotographomania: arousal from writing love poems or letters  

Erotomania: people who develop an unreasonable love of a stranger or person not interested in them

Erotophobia: fear of sexual love

Erotophonophilia: lust murder

Essayeurs: men who were hired by bordellos to become sexual with women so that timid clients would follow their lead

Eugenics: belief that only the fittest should impregnate women

Eunuchs: castrated men

Executions: a legal death sentence, some people become aroused by watching executions

Exhibitionism: exposing body to inappropriate and nonconsenting people for arousal

Exmuliebrate: castration

Exophilia: neophilia; fetish for the unusual or bizarre

Fainting: passing out or losing consciousness

Famulus: slaves, family

Fantasy: mental image or illusion, sometimes sexual Fantasy Play: acting out sexual fantasies

Felching: sucking semen out of vagina or anus; or inserting animals into anus or vagina

Fellatio: oral sex on a male

Female impersonators: men who dress in women's clothing, often for pay

Fetishes: an object that replaces people as primary object of love

Fibula: bar that runs through foreskin of male and attaches to semi-circle device, used by Romans to prevent intercourse

Ficaro: bordello

Fisting: inserting a fist or hand into the vagina or anus

Flagellation: striking a person with an object

Flatulence: passing gas from bowels

Flatuphilia: arousal from having partner pass gas

Flirting: pretending to have affection for another person

Floating hog ranches: boats used to transport prostitutes to the Western U.S. and from which they conducted business in route

Florentine girdle: chastity belt

Flower boats: Chinese boats used for prostitution

Foot binding: the wrapping of feet, done by Chinese and others

Foot fetish: podophilia

Formicophilia: zoophilia; sex play with ants (see also Entomophilia)

Fornicatory Dolls: plastic blow up, rubber, or mechanical dolls used for penetration

Fratrilagnia: arousal from having sex with one's brother

Frottage: rubbing body against partner or object for arousal

Furor uterinus: nymphomania

Furtling: the use of fingers underneath cut-outs in genital areas of photos for arousal

Galateism: agalmatophilia; sexual attraction to statues

Gamahucheur: cunnilingus

Gamophobia: fear of marriage

Gang Bangs: sex with a series of waiting partners

Gay: person who prefers same sex lover

Geishas: Japanese women used as social companions

Gemellus: testicles

Gendermap: "A developmental representation or template synchronously in the mind and brain depicting the details of one's G-I/R. It includes the lovemap but is larger, insofar as it incorporates whatever is gender coded vocationally, educationally, recreationally, sartorially, and legally as well as in matters of etiquette, grooming, body language, and vocal intonation." (John Money)

Genitals: sex organs of either male or female (penis, testicles, scrotum, clitoris, vagina, G-spot, cervix, etc.)

Gendoloma: the use of sexual fantasies to hasten orgasm

Genofact: genital fetish

Genuphallation: insertion of penis between the knees of a partner

Gerontophilia: attraction to a partner whose age is that of different generation

Girdle of Venus: chastity belt

Glory holes: a hole in a partition that allows a person on the other side to engage in sexual activity

Goddess Worship: a toilet scene using Witchcraft rituals

Godemiche: dildo in the shape of a penis with scrotum used for masturbation

Golden enemas and Douches: urine deposited into anus or vagina

Golden showers: urinating onto a partner's body

Gomphipothic: arousal by the sight of teeth

Gonads: testicles

Graophilia: arousal from older female partner

Graffiti: drawing or inscription on public walls, sometimes sexual; coprography

Graphelagnia: arousal from photographs of nudity or sex

Green bower: motels or establishments that catered to short-term rentals of rooms by couples to be used for sex

Gregomulcia: arousal from being fondled in a crowd

Groping: feeling of unknown or unidentified person in boxes, suits, etc.

Group Sex: sex with more than one partner or in close proximity of others

Groupies: erotomania; people who are devoted to or who follow celebrities

Gymnocryptosis: females talking about sex life of husbands

Gymnophilia: arousal from nudity

Gynandromorphous: hermaphrodite

Gynecaeum: area where Greeks kept wives at home and separated from other men

Gynecomania: compulsive desire for female sex partners

Gynecozygous: lesbians

Gynelophilous: arousal from pubic hair

Gynelophism: scalping hair on pubic area, usually done by lust murders

Gynemimesis: male-to-female cross dressing

Gynemimetophilia: person aroused by a male impersonating a female

Gynephonia: effeminate voice

Gynonudomanic: compulsion to rip clothes off others

-gyny: female or having female organs

Handkerchief Codes: color codes to identify sexual preferences

Haptosis: non-consensual sexual touching

Harem: area where Arabs kept wives at home and separated from others

Harem effect: lesbianism

Harlotry: prostitution

Harmatophobia: fear of sexual incompetence or making a mistake

Harmatophilia: arousal from sexual incompetence or mistakes, usually in female partner

Harnesses: body harnesses used in suspension or penis restriction

Harpaxophilia: arousal from being robbed or burglarized

Hebephilia: men aroused by teenage boys

Hedonism: act of indulging in pleasure

Hedonophilia: sexual arousal from engaging in pleasurable activity

Hedralingus: licking anus

Hemerotism: daydreaming or fantasizing about sex or nudity

Hemotigolagnia: arousal from bloody sanitary pads

Hermaphrodite: person who has both part female and male genitalia

Hetaerae: the highest class Greek prostitute or female companion

Heterophilia: arousal from members of the opposite sex

Heterosexualism: arousal from members of the opposite sex

Hierophilia: arousal from sacred objects Hirsutophilia: arousal from armpit hair

Hodophilia: arousal from traveling

Homilophilia: sexual arousal from hearing or giving sermons

Homoeroticism: sexual arousal from person of same sex

Homophilia: sexual arousal from person of same sex

Homophobia: fear of same gender sex partner

Homosexuality: arousal by partners of the same sex

Hot Wax: sex game where hot wax is melted onto partner

Humiliation: degrading partner to establish sexual power

Hybristophilia: love of someone who has committed an outrage

Hygrophilia: arousal from body fluids or moisture

Hymenoclasis: surgical defloration of virgin

Hymenorrhaphy: suturing of the hymen; infibulation

Hymenorrhexis: defloration of hymen

Hyperphilia: compulsive desire for sex

Hyphephilia: arousal from touching skin, hair, leather, fur or fabric

Hypnosis: act that induces a level of sleep

Iantronudia: arousal from exposing oneself to a physician, usually by faking an ailment

-iasis: pathological condition

Iconolagny: arousal from pictures or statues of nude people

Idiosyncrat: compulsive desire for sex  

ldrophrodisia: arousal from the odor of perspiration, especially from the genitals

Impotence: the inability to achieve enough tumescence to penetrate a partner with one's penis

Incest: sex with close family member

Incubus: a spirit who was thought to lie on top of women and have sex while they slept

Infanticide: the practice of killing a newborn child

Infantilism: cross-dressing as a young child for sex play

Infibulation: closing penis/vagina with suture or ring

Inflatable dolls: plastic dolls that are designed for genital penetration

Inspectionism: voyeurism

Insufflation: blowing air into a body cavity

Intergenerational: sex between partners with 20+ years age difference

Interrogation: to ask questions, sometimes under duress

Inunction: anointing or rubbing person with oil or lather

Invert: arousal from person of same sex

Invirility: impotence

Ipserotic: Narcissism

Irrumation: fellatio

Ischolagny: avoidance of women to prevent arousal

-ism: act or abnormal condition classified by prefix (i.e., transvestism)

-ist: person expert in field or adherent of prefix (i.e., sadist)

Iterandria: arousal from person of same sex

Jack gagger: a husband that procures men to pay for sex with his wife

Jactitation: a false boast that causes harm to others, sometimes sexual

Juvenilism: dressing or acting out role of a juvenile, sometimes sexual

Kabbazah Sex: tantra sex, male passive, female active

Karezza Sex: coitus reservatus

Kegel exercises: exercise of the pelvic muscles that control orgasm

Kleptolagnia: arousal from stealing

Kleptomania: compulsion to steal

Kleptophilia: arousal from stealing

Klismaphilia: arousal from enemas

Knismolagnia: arousal from tickling

Kokigami: the wrapping of the penis in a paper costume

Kolpeuryntomania: stretching of the vagina

Labiorrhaphy: suturing of the labia

Lacing: suturing body parts to another object for bondage

Lactaphilia: arousal from lactating breasts

-lagnia: lust, arousal

Lagnocolysis: celibacy

Lagnolalia: discussion of sexual subjects

Lagnonector: person who kills in order to have sex with corpse

Lagnoperissia: nymphomania

Lap dancing: squatting above a sitting person and rubbing against them to create arousal without touching genitals

Latex: rubber or plastic suits worn by people with this fetish

Lectamia: bundling

Lena: female panderer or procurer for prostitute

Leno: male panderer or pimp for prostitute

Leptosadism: mild form of sadism

Lesbian: woman who prefers female lover

Levirate marriage: marriage of widow without a son to deceased husband's brother

-lingus: suffix meaning with the tongue

Love: attachment, fondness, and devotion

Love addiction: irresistible compulsion to fantasize about or to be with a partner

Love map: "A developmental representation or template in the mind and in the brain depicting the idealized lover and the idealized program of sexuoerotic activity projected in imagery or actually engaged in with that lover." (John Money)

Love potions: potions that are thought to increase a person's sexual desire

Lubricants; a substance that reduces friction, often used to facilitate penetration

Lung-yang: arousal from person of same sex

Lust Murder: murdering a person one feels a sexual attraction toward

Lygerastia: tendency to only be aroused in darkness

Macrogenitalism: arousal from large genitals

Maieusiophilia: arousal from pregnant women

Mammagymnophilia: arousal from female breasts

-mania: suffix indicating an abnormal preoccupation, compulsion, or craving for an act or object

Manuxorate: male using his hand to masturbate

Maritate: female masturbating alone

Martymachlia: group sex

Maschalophilous: arousal from armpits

Masochism: ability to transfer emotions caused by pain to erotic feelings or as median in which to analyze weaknesses and strengths

Massage: rubbing of the body to increase circulation

Massage Parlors: a business establishment that specializes in massage

Mastigothymia: flagellation

Mastix: female sadist

Mastofact: breast fetish

Masturbation: orgasm not involving penetration of partner

Matrincest: sex with one's mother

Matronolagnia: arousal from older female partner

Maturation: the process of aging including sexual changes

Mazoperosis: mutilation of breasts

Mazophallate: rubbing penis between breasts

Meatotomy: dilating urethra with a medical dilating device, the urethra is stretched to eventually facilitate a finger or a penis

Medical scenes: sex play that involves using medical instruments or settings as props

Medocure: the clipping or perfuming of the penis

Medolalia: talking about the penis

Melolagnia: arousal from music

Menage a trois: a husband and wife having sex with a third party

Menophilist: arousal from menstruating women

Menstrual taboo: separation of spouses during female's menstrual cycle

Merinthophilia: arousal from being bound

Merlin: an artificial vagina used for penetration

Miscegenation: sex between races

Misogynist: a man who hates women

Misogyny: hatred of women by either sex

Mixoscopia: orgasm dependent on watching others having sex

Moriaphilia: arousal from telling sexual jokes

Morphophilia: arousal from person with a different physique

Mortality: inevitable death

Mucophagy: consuming mucous secretions as in nasolingus

Mummification: wrapping the full body in a manner that prevents movement

Munchausen's syndrome: arousal from reopening a wound

Mutilation: tearing the skin or otherwise deforming a person's body

Mysophilia: arousal from soiled clothing or foul decaying odors

Nanophilia: sexual attraction to a short partner

Naphephilia: arousal from touching or being touched

Narcissism: self love

Narratophilia: person who is aroused by discussing sex with others

Nasolingus: arousal from sucking nose of partner

Nasophilia: nose fetish

Natural family planning: birth control by rhythm method

Necrochlesis: sex with a female corpse

Necrocoitus: penetration of corpses

Necrophagia: cannibalism of corpses

Necrophilia: sex with corpses

Necrosadism: sadism or mutilation of corpses

Negotiation: arranging transactions for conduct with sex partner

Neophilia: arousal from novelty or change

Nepiolagnia: arousal by infants of opposite sex

Nepiophilia: arousal by infants of opposite sex

Nepiphtherosis: attempted sex with an infant

Nepirasty: arousal from handling infant often experienced by childless females  

Niddah: abstaining from sex 1/3 of the time to create arousal during rest of month

Nomavalent: arousal from traveling or new places, usually impotent at home

Nonmonogamy: multiple sex partners

Normophilia: those only aroused by acts considered normal by their religion or society

Nosolagnia: arousal from knowing partner has terminal illness

Nosophilia: arousal from knowing partner has terminal illness

Nudity (Recreational): nudity in group settings, beaches, nudist camps, etc.

Nudomania: arousal from nudity

Nymph: young woman or nature goddesses

Nympholepsy: trance state induced by erotic fantasies

Nymphomania: uncontrollable desire of woman for sex

Nymphophilia: adult males who are attracted to young females

Nymphotomy: removal of the inner labia

Obscene Phone Callers: people who become aroused by making phone calls, using vulgar language, or trying to elicit a reaction from the other party

Ochlophilia: arousal from being in a crowd

Oculolinctus: licking partner's eyeball

Oculophilia: eye fetish

Odaxelagnia: arousal from biting

Odontophilia: arousal from tooth extractions or tooth fetish

Oedipus complex: repressed desire to have sex with parent of opposite sex

Old maid's insanity: erotomania

Olisbos: dildos

Olfaction: the sense of smell

Olfactophilia: arousal from odors

Omolagnia: arousal from nudity

Onanism: masturbation or withdrawing penis from vagina before ejaculation

Ondinisme: arousal from urine

Oneiropornism: dreaming about prostitutes or sex

Open marriage: adultery

Ophidicism: use of snakes, sometimes for sexual purposes

Ophidiophilia: arousal from snakes

Oral sex: contact between the mouth and genitals; use of the mouth in sex play

Ordune: arousal from photographs of nudes or sex

Orgasms: climax of sexual excitement, often accompanying ejaculation

Organofact: fetish for some part of the body

Orgies: group sex

Osculocentric: arousal from kissing

Osmolagnia: arousal from odors

Osmophilia: arousal from odors

Osphresiolagnia: arousal from odors

Othello's syndrome: jealousy

Oxygen regulation: regulating intake of oxygen for sexual enhancement

Ozolagnia: arousal from odors

Pageism: male submitting to female

Panderer: a procurer or go-between for prostitutes and clients

Paraphallus: dildos

Paraphilia: sexual arousal to unusual or socially unacceptable object or act

Parascopism: voyeurism, especially through bed room windows

Pareunasthenia: impotence

Pareunomania: compulsive desire for sex

Parthenity: virgin

Parthenophagy: cannibalism of young girls

Parthenophilia: sexual desire for virgins

Parthenos: virgin

Passivism: submission

Pathicus: passive recipient in gay anal sex; catamite

Pathicant: a minor who engages in anal sex with an adult

Pathophobia: phobia of contracting a sexually transmitted disease

Patrolagnia: sex with one's own father

Pecattiphilia: arousal from sinning or possibly guilt

Pederasty: anal sex

Pediophilia: arousal from dolls

Pedophilia: sex with minors

Peeping Tom: voyeur

Penetration toys: devices used for penis insertion during masturbation

Penis ligation: the tying of the foreskin of a penis

Penis modification: physical alteration of penis

Penosugia: fellatio

Peodeiktophilia: exhibitionism

Peritomy: circumcision

Perogynia: mutilation of females

Personal ads: advertisements designed to attract sex partners

Perversion: sexual acts that differ from the majority; paraphilia

Petticoat discipline: the use of cross dressing adolescent boys by their mothers as a form of control

-phagy: practice of eating object specified by prefix

Phallolalia: talking about penises

Phallophilia: large penis fetish or preference

Pheromones: natural chemicals or hormones that induce sexual response

Philemanmania: compulsion to kiss

-philia: suffix that indicates an abnormal sexual attachment to what is specified by acronym

Phlebotomy: arousal from bloodletting

Phobias: an irrational fear of an object or situation

Phobophilia: arousal from fear or hate

Phone Sex: verbal sex between partners on a phone

Phygephilia: sexual arousal from being a fugitive

Pictophilia: arousal from pictures, video or movies with a sexual subject

Pie throwing: arousal from being hit with a pie

Piercing: inserting needles into skin for arousal

Pimps: procurer for sexual partners that pay

Play: the consensual acting out of a role or game, sometimes sexual

Play room: room equipped with sex paraphernalia and used primarily for sex play

Podophilia: arousal from feet

Polyandry: one wife with multiple husbands

Polygamy: one person with multiple marriage partners

Polygyny: one person with multiple wives

Polyiterophilia: arousal only after having sex with a series of partners

Polymorphous: having several forms of arousal techniques

Pompoir: vaginal muscle control that masturbates penis when inserted

Pornography: depictions of sex that are considered unacceptable by one's society

Posthetomy: circumcision

Power tools: electric or battery operated tools that can be used in sex play, although this was not their original function

Preblysis: premature ejaculation

Prisha: religious separation of males and females

Proctophallism: anal sex

Proctotitillia: tickling anus

Procurer: a person who solicits or provides prostitutes for clients

Professional dominatrix: woman hired to function as a top or sadist

Prostitution: sex performed for financial gain Pseudo: pretended act

Psycholagny: orgasm induced from psychic or mental stimulation

Psychopathic: person who indulges in own pleasure without regard for hurting others

Psychose passionelle: erotomania

Psychrophilia: arousal from being cold or watching others freeze

Psychrotentiginous: arousal from cold weather

Pubephilia: arousal from pubic hair

Pubic dressing: coloring or adding ornaments to pubic hair

Pubic Hair sculpturing: removing pubic hair so that the remainder forms a pattern (i.e. a heart)

Pudendacure: pubic dressing for female

Purdah: veil used on women to hide their face

Puritans: a protestant group that became excessively strict regarding morals   

Pygmalionism: agalmatophilia; statue fetishism where person rubs their body against statue

Pygophilemania: arousal from kissing buttocks

Pygophilia: arousal from contact with buttocks

Pygotripsis: arousal from rubbing buttocks

Pyrophilia: arousal from fire or of its use in sex play

Quadoshka: American Indian form of tantric sex

Queening: sitting on the side of a person's face as a form of bondage

Rape: nonconsensual sex involving coercion, empowerment or anger

Rape rack: bondage device which leaves victim's genitals exposed for sex or rape

Raptophilia: arousal only from raping a victim

Red light district: area with bordellos and perhaps street prostitutes

Relics: an object that has historical or special interest

Renifleur: person aroused die smell of urine or by sniffing underwear

Retifism: shoe fetish

Rhabdophilia: arousal from being flagellated

Rimming: penetration of anus with tongue

Ringing: insertion of permanent jewelry into a body piercing

Ritual Sex: sex performed with specific rules of conduct (i.e., Wicca, weddings, slave training)

Robotism: attraction to or the use of robots in sex play

Roman Showers: vomiting on partner, usually after drinking urine or wine

Sacofricosis: cutting a hole in pant pocket to facilitate masturbation in public

Sadism: empowerment and arousal derived from injuring others

Sadomasochism by proxy: arousal from watching others disciplined; Dippoldism

Salirophilia: person ingesting human sweat or saliva (fluids with a salt content)

Sapphosadism: lesbian sadism

Sarmassophilia: arousal from kneading flesh

Satan worship: religious rituals performed to Satan as a god

Satyriasis: men who have an uncontrollable desire for sex

Scarfing: the use of a scarf in strangulation for sexual arousal

Scat: arousal from using feces in sex play

Scopophilia: arousal from being stared at oneself

Scoptolagnia: arousal from seeing the genitals of the opposite sex

Scoptophilia: arousal from looking at sexually stimulating scenes

Scortum: prostitution

Scrotal infusion: infusion of saline into the scrotal sack so that it enlarges

Selgolalia: telling stories that include sex

Sensory compensation: our body's regulation of incoming stimulus to a tolerable level

Sensory deprivation: using lack of sensations to create desire

Sensory enhancement: increasing arousal by increased body sensations

Sensory overload: inability of our body to absorb and comprehend incoming stimulus

Seraglio: the Chinese practice of keeping wives secluded at home from other men

Serenades: musical performance during courtship given outdoors at night

Sergeism: infliction of injury to suppress arousal, automasochism, based on story of Sergius by Tolstoy

Sex addiction: compulsion to have sex

Sex Magick: the use of witchcraft rituals for sexual purposes

Sex rings: organized groups of children being sexually exploited by one or more adults

Sex surrogates: people who are trained to help people overcome sexual dysfunctions

Sex toys: mechanical objects used to assist in masturbation or sex play

Sexautism: tendency to be preoccupied with sexual thoughts

Sexercise: exercises designed to improve muscles used for sex

Sexologists: people who study the science of sex

Sexoschizia: bi-sexual

Sexual aberration: paraphilia

Sexual anomalies: paraphilias

Sexual inversion: arousal from person of same sex

Sexual sadist killer: lust murderer

Shaving: removing the hair with a razor of a partner or oneself for arousal

Showers: depositing body fluids onto a partner's body

Shunammitism: bundling

Siderodromophilia: arousal from trains

Siphnianize: anal masturbation

Sitophilia: arousal from food

Slapping: slapping partner for arousal

Slaves: person who contracts to be sex slave

Sleeping princess syndrome: those aroused by partner who appears to be asleep

Slings: swings or other forms of support for suspension from which a person may engage in sex

Smegma: secretions from gland under foreskin of penis or clitoris

Snapping pussy: constrictions of muscles used for orgasm; sexercise

Snuff films: films that portray the actual murder and mutilation of one of the actors

Sodomy: oral or anal intercourse involving penetration with male, female, or animal

Somnophilia: fondling stranger in their sleep

Sororate marriage: right of spouse to engage in sex with sisters-in-law or sometimes brothers-in-law

Sororilagnia: sex with one's own sister

Sotadism: anal sex

Sounding: insertion of an object into the urethra

Spanking: using hand to slap partner's buttocks for sensory enhancement and arousal

Spay: castration

Spectrophilia: either coitus with spirits or arousal from image in mirrors

Speculum: dilating device used by physicians when doing pelvic exams and in SM medical scenes

Spermatophobia: fear of semen loss

Sphagia: a sacrifice used to placate the gods, the whole offering was completely burned

Sphincter: anal or urethral muscle that closes to prevent passage of urine or feces

Splitting: splitting the penis from the glans toward the base

Stabbing: insertion of a sharp object into flesh

Stag parties: private parties where only men and possibly a female stripper or entertainer are permitted

Stapling: inserting a U-shaped wire into skin during sex play

Statuophilia: agalmatophilia; sexual attraction to statues

Sthenolagnia: arousal from demonstration of strength or muscles

Stigmatophilia: arousal from partner who is stigmatized (i.e., tattoos, piercings, scars)

Strabismus: arousal from eyes of partner

Strangulation: controlling oxygen by restricting windpipe or blood vessels in neck

Stretching: stretching body or genitals for arousal

String bondage: constrictions; wrapping string around body at certain intervals for arousal

Strip poker: card game where the losers remove articles of clothing

Strip search: interrogation process where sex partner is stripped and searched

Stripping: removal of clothes, sometimes performed on stage in an erotic manner

Stuffing: insertion of objects into vagina or anus

Stupprator: man who is aroused by virgins

Subincision: cutting part of the glans penis from the tip toward the base

Subliminal tapes: audiotapes that give messages intended to alter habits

Submission: surrender to and trust of a partner

Subpersonality: a temporary personality or character change but one where the person does not lose all consciousness with their current surroundings, they are often from childhood

Succubus: a female spirit who was thought to lie underneath men and have sex with them while they slept

Support groups: groups of people that find solace in discussing a common problem

Suspension: suspending body for sensory deprivation and bondage

Suttee: religious practice of killing wife upon husband's death and burial

Suturing: stitching flesh together

Swinging: group sex or wife swapping

Swing: an object that allows a person to be suspended and move back and forth

Switch: people who play either the top or bottom role (sadist or masochist)

Sybian: a vibrating dildo that sits on top of an object that resembles a saddle

Symphorophilia: arousal from arranging a disaster, crash, or explosion

Syntribate: rubbing thighs together to masturbate

Tachorgasmia: premature ejaculation

Talisman: charm, sometimes used in love spells

Tantalolagnia: arousal from teasing

Tantra: yoga type sexual discipline

Taphephilia: arousal from being buried alive  

Tattooing: tattooing for arousal and marking

Tea Room: slang term for restrooms used for hustling and fellatio

Teasing: to excite sexually but without fulfilling implied message

Teledildonics: arousal from computer sex games

Telegony: belief that first man impregnating woman will be the father of any subsequent children

Telephone scatophilia: arousal from obscene phone calls

Telephonicophilia: arousal from using phone calls for sexual conversations

Teratophallic: large penises

Terror play: sex play using terror or fear for arousal

Thalpotentiginy: arousal from heat

Thelectize: clitoridectomy

Thesauromania: compulsion to collect objects or clothing belonging to females

Thlipsosis: arousal from pinching others

Three-legged bloomers: bondage underwear garment that has sleeve for head that opens to genitals of partner

Thusiai: a sacrifice of food cooked on an altar and eaten later by priests or worshippers

Thygatria: sex between father and daughter

Tickling: light touch that sometimes causes a laughter response

Timophilia: when a person's primary arousal comes from gold or wealth

-tion: suffix indicating a state of being

Titillagnia: arousal from tickling

Tithiolagnia: having an orgasm while nursing

Toilet Training: urinating or defecating on a partner as a form of slave training

Top: term used for partner who controls stimuli during sex games

Torture: inflicting pain to get information or for revenge, also used in sex play

Tourniquets: a device that compresses blood vessels to control bleeding, sometimes sexual

Toucheurism: touching a stranger for arousal

Tragolimia: compulsive desire for sex regardless of attraction of partner

Transsexual: person who are in the process of physically changing sexes

Transvestite: person who is aroused by crossdressing

Transvestophilia: arousal from crossdressing

Traumaphilia: arousal from wounds or trauma; automasochism

Trial marriage: couple who lives together for a period to determine compatibility for marriage

Tribadism: lesbianism; sex by rubbing

Triborgasmia: wife who masturbates husband

Trichophilia: hair fetish

Tripsolagnia: arousal from having hair shampooed

Tripsolagnophilia: arousal from massage

Tripsophilia: arousal from massage

Troilism: arousal by being third party in sex scene

Troubadours: 11th-13th century musician poets that popularized love and chivalry

Tunnel of love: carnival boat ride that passed through a dark tunnel allowing couples a moment of privacy

Tyrannism: cruelty; sadism

Undinism: arousal from water

Uranism: arousal from person of same sex

Urethral self-instrumentation: sounding; inserting object into urethra for arousal

Urolagnia: arousal from urine

Urophilia: arousal from urine Urtication: the use of nettles to create extra sensation

Vampirism: consuming blood of partner for arousal

Vertigo: dizziness, sometimes used to enhance sex acts

Vertugadin: large hooped skirts that also acted as chastity devices

Vibrators: tools that are inserted and which vibrate

Vicarphilia: arousal from other people's exciting experiences

Victorian lace: sexual discipline using crossdressing as punishment

Victorianism: a 19th century English society that was notorious for bigotry and restrictive about morals

Vincilagnia: arousal from bondage

Virgin: person not having experienced penetrative sex with another person

Virimimism: adoption of masculinity

Visualization: an image formed by the mind, sometimes used in sex rituals and often in sexual fantasy

Voyeurism: arousal by watching others without their consent

Water sports: the use of urine for arousal; urophilia

Waxing: removal of body hair by a sticky substance applied to a strip laid against hair and pulled off

Weddings: marriage ceremonies

Weight training: the use of hanging weights on genitals or hooks for arousal

Whipping: striking or flagellating a partner for sensory enhancement

White slavery: the sale of one race to another for purposes of prostitution

Whore house: bordello

Wife swapping: exchanging spouses with another couple for sexual purposes

Worship: reverence of an object or person

Wrestling: a physical struggle between two or more people, used as sexual arousal by some

Xenodynamic: person who is only potent with strangers

Xenolimia: arousal from strangers

Xenophilia: arousal from strangers

Yoni worship: worship of the female genitals

Yoshiwara: Japanese prostitutes

Zelophilia: arousal from jealousy

Zooerasty: arousal from animals

Zoophilia: arousal from animals

Zwischenstufe: arousal from person of same sex

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© 1992-1998 Brenda Love,

The Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices; www.odd-sex.com

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