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Paraphilia |
Focus of erotic interest |
Abasiophilia | People with impaired mobility[3] |
Acrotomophilia | People with amputations[4][5] |
Agalmatophilia | Statues, mannequins and immobility[6] |
Algolagnia | Pain, particularly involving an erogenous zone; differs from masochism as there is a biologically different interpretation of the sensation rather than a subjective interpretation[7] |
Andromimetophilia | Trans men[3][8] |
Anililagnia | Attraction by young men to older women[9] |
Anthropophagolagnia | Sadistic paraphilia that involves raping and then cannibalizing one’s victims.[10] |
Anthropophagy | Deriving pleasure from ingesting human flesh[10] |
Apotemnophilia | Being an amputee[4][11] |
Asphyxiophilia | Being asphyxiated or strangled[4] |
Attraction to disability | People with one or more physical disabilities.[12] |
Autagonistophilia | Being on stage or on camera[13][14] |
Autassassinophilia | Being in life-threatening situations[4] |
Autoandrophilia | A biological female imagining herself as a male[15][16] |
Autoerotic asphyxiation | Self-induced asphyxiation, sometimes to the point of near unconsciousness[14] |
Autogynephilia | A biological man imagining himself as a female[17] |
Auto-haemofetishism | Bleeding oneself (does not involve ingestion of blood). Type of autovampirism.[18] |
Autonepiophilia | The image of one’s self in the form of an infant.[13] |
Autopedophilia | The image of one’s self in the form of a child.[19] |
Autoplushophilia | The image of one’s self in the form of a plush or anthropomorphized animal.[19] |
Autovampirism | The image of one’s self in the form of a vampire.[20] Involves ingesting or seeing one’s own blood.[18] |
Autozoophilia | The image of one’s self in the form of an animal or anthropomorphized animal.[19] |
Biastophilia | Rape of an unconsenting person; see also consensual rape fantasy[4] |
Blood fetishism | Drinking or looking at blood[21] |
Chremastistophilia | Being robbed or held up[13] |
Chronophilia | Partners of a widely differing chronological age[13] |
Coprophilia | Feces; also known as scat, scatophilia or fecophilia[2][22] |
Dacryphilia | Tears or crying[23] |
Diaper fetishism | Diapers; considerable overlap with paraphilic infantilism[24] |
Dendrophilia | Trees[4] |
Emetophilia | Vomit[3] |
Erotic asphyxiation | Asphyxia of oneself or others[25] |
Erotophonophilia | Sexual arousal from murdering people, often complete strangers (also known as dacnolagnomania).[10] |
Exhibitionism | Exposing one’s genitals to unsuspecting and nonconsenting others[2] |
Feederism | Erotic eating, feeding, and weight gain.[26] |
Foot fetishism | Attraction to feet[27] |
Formicophilia | Being crawled on by bugs[13][28] |
Forniphilia | Turning a human being into a piece of furniture[29] |
Frotteurism | Rubbing against a non-consenting person[2] |
Gerontophilia | Elderly people[30] |
Gynandromorphophilia | Transsexual or transgender women[3][31] |
Gynemimetophilia | Transsexual or transgender women[3][31] |
Heterophilia | Attraction to, fetishization, or sexualized idealization of heterosexuality and/or people who are “straight-acting,” especially by non-heterosexual people.[32][33][34] |
Homeovestism | Wearing clothing emblematic of one’s own sex[35][36] |
Hybristophilia | Criminals, particularly for cruel or outrageous crimes[13][37] |
Infantophilia | Pedophilia with a focus on children five years old or younger, a recently suggested term that is not in general use[38] |
Kleptophilia | Stealing; also known as kleptolagnia[3] |
Klismaphilia | Enemas, either giving or having[3] |
Lactophilia | Breast milk[39] |
Liquidophilia | Immersing genitals in liquids[39] |
Macrophilia | Fascination with or a sexual fantasy involving giants.[39] |
Maschalagnia | Attraction to the armpits[40] |
Masochism | Suffering; being beaten, bound or otherwise humiliated[2] |
Mechanophilia | Cars or other machines; also “mechaphilia.”[41][42][43] |
Melolagnia | Arousal from music[44] |
Menophilia | Menstruation[39] |
Metrophilia | Arousal from poetry[44] |
Morphophilia | Particular body shapes or sizes[14] |
Mucophilia | Mucus[39] |
Mysophilia | Dirtiness, soiled or decaying things[3] |
Narratophilia | Obscene words[3] |
Nasophilia | Noses[39] |
Navel fetishism | Sexual attraction to navels – either their own or someone else’s.[45] |
Necrophilia | Corpses[2][3][46] |
Objectophilia | pronounced emotional desire towards specific inanimate objects[2] |
Oculolinctus | Licking the eyeballs[47] |
Oculophilia | A fetish of being aroused by eyes and activities directly relating to and/or involving the eyes. Seeing _______(any item) and then being aroused sexually would not meet classification for this term. |
Olfactophilia | Smells[3][13] |
Paraphilic infantilism | Sexual arousal based on dressing or being treated like a baby, also known as autonepiophilia[13] or “adult baby syndrome”;[48] considerable overlap with diaper fetishism[24] |
Partialism | Specific, non-genital body parts[2][3] |
Pedophilia | Prepubescent children, also spelled paedophilia; often confused with hebephilia, ephebophilia, and pederasty[2][49] |
Peodeiktophilia | Exposing one’s penis[4] |
Pedovestism | Dressing like a child[50] |
Pictophilia | Pornography or erotic art, particularly pictures[3][13] |
Piquerism | Sexual gratification through penetration of another person, most commonly by stabbing or cutting the body with sharp objects[51] |
Plushophilia | Sexual attraction to stuffed toy animals (Plushies).[52] |
Pygophilia | Buttocks[53] |
Pyrophilia | Fire[54] |
Raptophilia | Committing rape, possibly consensual rape fantasy[13] |
Sadism | Inflicting pain on others[2] |
Salirophilia | Soiling or dirtying others[3] |
Sexual fetishism | Nonliving objects[2] |
Somnophilia | Sleeping or unconscious people[3][13] |
Sophophilia | Sexual arousal from learning[55] |
Sthenolagnia | Muscles and displays of strength[39] |
Stigmatophilia | Body piercings and tattoos[4][39] |
Symphorophilia | Witnessing or staging disasters such as car accidents[4] |
Telephone scatologia | Obscene phone calls, particularly to strangers; also known as telephonicophilia[2][13] and scatophilia[56] |
Teratophilia | Deformed or monstrous people[57] |
Toucherism | Touching an unsuspecting, non-consenting person with the hand[58] |
Toxophilia | Arousal from archery[44] |
Transvestic fetishism | Wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex; also known as transvestism[2] |
Transvestophilia | A transvestite sexual partner[13] |
Trichophilia | Hair[39] |
Troilism | Cuckoldism, watching one’s partner have sex with someone else, possibly without the third party’s knowledge; also known as triolism[14][59] |
Urolagnia | Urination, particularly in public, on others, and/or being urinated on. Also referred to as “water sports”[2][3][13][14] |
Vampirism | Attraction to or involving blood[60][61] |
Vorarephilia | The idea of eating or being eaten by others; usually swallowed whole, in one piece |
Voyeurism | Watching others while naked or having sex, generally without their knowledge; also known as scopophilia or scoptophilia |
Zoophilia | Animals |
Zoosadism | Inflicting pain on or seeing animals in pain |