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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 |
