List of paraphilias

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This article is primarily a list of different paraphilias and sexual fetishes.

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[edit] Alphabetized list

The following terms mostly represent combinations of Greek or Latin words or roots.

  • Abasiophilia: love of (or sexual attraction to) people who are lame or crippled and/or who use leg braces or other orthopaedic appliances[1]
  • Agalmatophilia: sexual attraction to statues or mannequins or immobility
  • Algolagnia: sexual pleasure from pain[2]
  • Acrotomophilia: sexual attraction to amputees[3]
  • Andromimetophilia: sexual attraction towards female-to-male transsexuals[4]
  • Apotemnophilia: sex arousal associated with being, becoming, or being perceived as an amputee[5]
  • Aquaphilia: arousal from water and/or in watery environments, including bathtubs and swimming pools
  • Aretifism: sexual attraction to people who are without footwear, in contrast to retifism
  • Argyrophilia: sexual attraction to a person/depiction in the black-and-white medium.
  • Autogynephilia: a male's sexual arousal in response to the image of himself as female
  • Biastophilia: sexual arousal from assault and rape
  • Chronophilia: sexual attraction to a partner of a widely differing chronological age
  • Clinophilia: sometimes characterised as a love of beds
  • Coprophilia: sexual attraction to (or pleasure from) feces. It's strictly related to Fecophilia, sexual arousal from defacation or watching a partner defecate, particularly on oneself
  • Dacryphilia: sexual pleasure in eliciting tears from others or oneself
  • Emetophilia (also vomerophilia): sexual attraction to vomiting
  • Erotic asphyxia: sexual attraction from asphyxia (also called "breath control play" or "strangulation"), including autoerotic asphyxiation
  • Erotic lactation (also galactophilia or lactophilia): sexual attraction to human milk or lactating women
  • Exhibitionism (also autagonistophilia or peodeiktophilia): the recurrent urge to or enacting of exposing one's genitals to unsuspecting persons; also, sexual arousal by engaging in sexual behavior in view of third parties.[6]
  • Food play: sexual arousal from food
  • Formicophilia: sexual attraction to smaller animals, insects, etc. crawling on parts of the body
  • Forniphilia: sexual objectification in which a person's body is incorporated into a piece of furniture
  • Frotteurism: sexual arousal from the recurrent urge or behavior of touching or rubbing against a non-consenting person[6]
  • Gynandromorphophilia: sexual attraction to women with penises, men cross-dressed as women, or male-to-female transsexuals[7]
  • Gynemimetophilia sexual attraction towards men-to-female transsexuals[4]
  • Hebephilia: sexual attraction to pubescent children[8]
  • Homeovestism: sexual arousal by wearing the clothing of one's own gender
  • Human animal roleplay: sexual arousal by having oneself or a partner taking on the role of real or imaginary animal
  • Hybristophilia: sexual arousal to people who have committed crimes, in particular cruel or outrageous crimes
  • Infantophilia: sexual attraction to children three years old or younger
  • Katoptronophilia: sexual arousal from having sex in front of mirrors
  • Kleptophilia: sexual arousal from stealing things
  • Klismaphilia: sexual pleasure from enemas
  • Lust murder (also homicidophilia or erotophonophilia): sexual arousal from committing (or trying to commit) murder
  • Macrophilia: sexual attraction to giants, giantessess or giant body parts (such as breasts and genitalia)—the opposite of microphilia
  • Masochism: the recurrent urge or behavior of wanting to be humiliated, beaten, bound, or otherwise made to suffer[6]
  • Microphilia: sexual attraction to miniature people or miniature body parts—the opposite of macrophilia
  • Mysophilia: sexual attraction to soiled, dirty, foul or decaying materials
  • Narratophilia: sexual arousal in the use of dirty or obscene words to a partner
  • Necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses
  • Nepiophilia: sexual attraction to children three years old or younger
  • Odaxelagnia: sexual arousal associated with biting or being bitten
  • Olfactophilia: sexual stimulus with smells or odors. (see also Jock sniffing)
  • Paraphilic infantilism: sexual pleasure from dressing, acting, or being treated as a baby
  • Parthenophilia: sexual attraction to virgins
  • Partialism: exaggerated sexual interest in a non-genital very specific body part
  • Paedophilia: sexual attraction to prepubescent children[9] (American spelling: pedophilia)
  • Pedohebephilia: sexual attaction to children, both pubescent and prepubescent[10]
  • Pictophilia: sexual attraction to pictorial pornography or erotic art
  • Plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed animals and/or people dressed in animal costumes
  • Podophilia: sexual attraction to human feet
  • Pup-play: human animal roleplay utilizing canine characteristics or identities
  • Pyrophilia: sexual arousal through watching, setting, hearing, talking or fantasizing about fire
  • Sadism: deriving pleasure, or in some cases sexual arousal from giving pain[6]
  • Scatophilia: sexual arousal from making obscene telephone calls
  • Salirophila: sexual arousal by soiling (only the appearance of) the object of one's desired partner
  • Sitophilia: sexual arousal by involving food in sex
  • Somnophilia: sexual arousal from sleeping or unconscious people. It appears to be related to necrophilia.
  • Sthenolagnia: sexual arousal from the demonstration of strength or muscles
  • Telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by making obscene phone calls to strangers[6]
  • Teratophilia: sexual attraction to deformed or monstrous people
  • Transvestism: a male's sexual arousal from wearing female clothes;[11] also called transvestic autogynephilia[12]
  • Trichophilia: sexual arousal from hair
  • Troilism (also spelled triolism): Sexual interest in watching one's regular sexual partner having sex with a third party, usually unbeknownst to the third party.
  • Urolagnia: sexual attraction to urine, including urinating in public, urinating on others, and being urinated on by others; it includes Urophagia: sexual attraction to drinking urine or watching others drink urine.
  • Vorarephilia: sexual attraction at the thought of being eaten by or eating another person or creature.
  • Voyeurism: (also scoptophilia) sexual arousal through secretly watching others in intimate situations, such as disrobing, being naked, or having sex[6]
  • Xenophily: sexual attraction to foreigners (in science fiction, it can also mean sexual attraction to aliens)
  • Zelophilia: sexual arousal from jealousy
  • Zoophilia: sexual attraction to animals
  • Zoosadism: sexual gratification derived from causing pain and suffering to animals; necrozoophilia (also necrobestiality) strictly applies to killing animals

[edit] Fetishes and partialisms

[edit] Japanese terms

Though these paraphilias originated in Japan, they have recently gained popularity in other countries, particularly the Americas.

  • Nyotaimori: sexual arousal by eating sashimi or sushi from the body of a (usually naked) woman
  • Omorashi: sexual arousal to one's or a partner's feeling of having a full bladder
  • Tamakeri: sexual arousal from having a male kicked in the groin by a woman
  • Wakamezake: sexual arousal by drinking alcohol from a woman's body.

[edit] Technical terms for non-paraphilic sexual interests

[edit] References

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  5. ^ Money, J. (1977). Apotemnophilia: Two cases of self-demand amputation as a paraphilia. Journal of Sex Research, 13, 115-125.
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  13. ^ Blanchard, R. (1989). The classification and labelling of nonhomosexual gender dysphorias. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 18, 315–334.
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