Used in a sexual context, terms with the -philia suffix refer to conditions in which the person's primary sexual interest involves the stimulus or situation mentioned (the suffix is also used for non-sexual interest in or admiration of a subject). Terms with the -lagnia suffix refer to an action involving the stimulus or situation. For example, someone who is consistently sexually excited by feces would have coprophilia; any sexual act involving feces, even by someone for whom that is not a primary interest, would be coprolagnia.
Alphabetized list
The following terms mostly represent combinations of Greek or Latin words or roots, but few qualify as clinical paraphilias. Some of the following sexual interests are fairly common, while others are very rare.
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
Autoassassinophilia: sexual arousal from fantasizing about or staging one's own murder
Biastophilia: sexual arousal from assault and rape.
Chronophilia: sexual attraction to a partner of a widely differing chronological age.
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.
Ephebophilia (also hebephilia): sexual attraction towards adolescents.
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): sexual arousal by engaging in sexual behavior in view of third parties (also includes the recurrent urge or behavior to expose one's genitals to an unsuspecting person).
Lust murder (also homicidophilia or erotophonophilia): sexual arousal from committing (or trying to commit) murder. It also appear to be strictly related with others similar paraphilias like
sexual sadism,
necrophilia,
vorarephilia and
Blood fetish.
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
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. It includes
necrosadism, sexual gratification derived by mutilating and dismembering corpses.
Odaxelagnia: sexual arousal associated with biting or being bitten.
Pedophilia: sexual attraction to prepubescent children (British spelling: paedophilia). It includes
Nepiophilia (also infantophilia), sexual attraction to children three years old or younger.
Pictophilia: sexual attraction to pictorial pornography or erotic art
Plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed animals and/or people dressed in animal costumes
Troilism: sharing a sexual partner with another person while looking on
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: sexual arousal through secretly watching others having sex (also includes scoptophilia—the recurrent urge or behavior to observe an unsuspecting person who is naked, disrobing or engaging in sexual activities (see
Peeping Tom)
Xenophily: sexual attraction to foreigners (in science fiction, it can also mean sexual attraction to aliens)
Zoosadism: sexual gratification derived from causing pain and suffering to animals. Necrozoophilia (also necrobestiality) strictly applies to killing animals.
Wet and messy fetishism: sexual arousal by having substances deliberately and generously applied to the naked skin, or to the clothes people are wearing
Japanese terms
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.