GLOSSARY OF TERMS * 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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