A

• ACAROPHILIA: Affinity for itching
• ACHLUOPHILIA: Love of darkness
• ACMEGENESIS: Orgasm
• ACOMOCLITIC: Preference for hairless genitals
• ACOUSTICOPHILIA: Arousal from sounds
• ACROPHILIA: Arousal from heights or high altitudes
• ACROTOMOPHILIA: Arousal from amputees
• ACTIRASTY: To become aroused from exposure to sun’s rays
• ACUCULLOPHALIA: Circumcision
• ACYESIS: Female sterility
• ADAMITISM: Going naked for God
• ADOLESCENTILISM: Cross-dressing or playing the role of an adolescent
• AELUROPHILIA: Deriving gratification from cats
• AGALMATOPHILIA: Attractions to statues or mannequins
• AGAMIC: Asexual; parthenogenic
• AGENOBIOSIS: Married couple who consent to live together without sex
• AGONOPHILIA: Person who is aroused by a partner pretending to struggle
• AGORAPHILIA: Arousal from open spaces or having sex in public places
• AGREXOPHILIA: Arousal from others knowing you are having sex
• AICHMOPHILIA: Love of needles and other pointed objects
• AISCHROLATREIA: Worship of filth, smut; obscenity cult
• ALBUTOPHILIA: Arousal from water
• ALGOLAGNIA: Sexual satisfaction resulting from giving or receiving pain; sadism or masochism
• ALIPHINEUR: Person using lotion to arouse a partner
• ALLOERASTY: Use of nudity of another person to arouse a 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: Attraction to partners of another age group
• ALTOCALCIPHILIA: High heel fetish
• ALVINOLAGNIA: Stomach fetish
• AMATRIPSIS: Masturbation by rubbing labia together
• AMAUROPHILIA: Preference for a blind or blindfolded sex partner
• AMAXOPHILIA: Attraction to riding in cars and motor vehicles
• AMBISEXTROUS: Pertaining to a bisexual person
• AMELOTASIS: Attraction to absence of limb
• AMOKOSCISIA: Arousal or sexual frenzy with desire to slash or mutilate women
• AMOMAXIA: Sex in a parked car
• AMPHIEROTISM: Capacity of erotic reaction toward either sex
• AMPHIGENTIC INVERT: An individual who regularly engages in sexual activity with persons of both genders
• AMPHISEXUAL: Bisexual
• AMULIEROSIS: Result of sexual privacy
• AMYCHESIS: Act of scratching partner during sexual passion
• AMYCHOPHILIA: Deriving sexual pleasure from being scratched
• ANACLITISM: Arousal from items used as infant
• ANACREONTIC: Erotic
• ANALINCTUS: Licking the anus
• ANALINGUS: Rimming or penetration of anus with tongue
• ANASTEEMAPHILIA: Attraction to a person because of a difference in height
• ANAXIPHILIA: Act of falling in love with a loser by someone who should know better
• ANDROGYNY: Having both male and female characteristics
• ANDROGYNOPHILIA: Bisexual
• 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: Sexual desire for older women
• ANISONOGAMIST: Attraction to either older or younger partners
• ANOCRATISM: Anal sex
• 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
• ANTHROPOPHAGOLAGNIA: Rape with cannibalism
• ANTHROPOPHAGY: Pleasure derived from the ingestion of human flesh
• ANTIPUDIC: Covering one’s genitals
• ANTIOPHILIA: Fondness for floods
• APELLOUS: Circumcision
• APHALLATIA: Celibacy
• APHEPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from being touched
• APHILOPHRENIA: A feeling that one is unloved or unwanted
• APISTIA: Adultery
• APODYSOPHILIA: Feverish desire to undress
• APOTEMNOPHILIA: Person who has sexual fantasies about losing a limb
• ARACHNEPHILIA: Attraction to spiders
• ARPAGEE: A raped woman
• ARRHENOTHIGMOPHILOUS: Nymphomania
• ARSOMETRY: Anal sex
• 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
• AULOPHILIA: Love of flutes
• 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 of pain on one’s own body
• AUTONEPIOPHILIA: Sexual attraction from dressing or being treated like an infant
• AUTOPEDERASTY: The insertion of one’s own penis into their anus
• AVERING: A boy’s begging in the nude to arouse sympathy
• AVISODOMY: Breaking the neck of a bird while penetrating it for sex
• AXILLISM: The use of the armpit for sex

B

• BATHYCOLPIAN: Possessing a large bosom
• BATRACHOPHILIA: Attraction to frogs
• BELONEPHILIA: Arousal from pins or needles
• BIASTOPHILIA: Pleasure from forcible rape of a terrified stranger
• BLISSOM: To copulate with an ewe
• BOLLOCKS: Testicles
• BOTULINONIA: Sex with a sausage
• BROMIDROPHILIA: Arousal from bodily smells
• BRONTOPHILIA: Love of thunderstorms

C

• CALLIPYGIAN: Having shapely buttocks
• CANOPHILIA: Turned on by dogs
• CAPNOLAGNIA: Arousal from watching others smoke
• CAPONIZE: To castrate a chicken
• CATAGELOPHILIA: Love of being ridiculed
• CATAMENIA: Menstruation
• CATAMITE: A boy used in homosexual relations
• CHASMOPHILIA: Attraction to nooks, crannies, crevices, and chasms
• CHEIMAPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from cold or winter
• CHIONOPHILIA: Love of snow
• CHREMATISTOPHILIA: Arousal from being charged for sex or robbed
• CHRYSOPHILIA: Arousal from gold or golden objects
• CLAUSTROPHILIA: Love of being confined in small places
• CLIMACOPHILIA: Deriving pleasure by falling down stairs
• COMMASCULATION: Homosexuality between men
• CONCUPISCENCE: Excessive sexual desire
• CONTRECTATION: The love play preceding sexual intercourse
• CONVERTITE: A reformed prostitute
• COPROLOGY: The study of pornography
• COPROPHEMIA: Obscene language
• COPROPHILIA: A fancier of feces
• CRATOLAGNIA: Arousal from strength
• CRUROPHILIA: Sexual arousal from legs
• CYPRIAN: Lecherous
• CYPRIDOPHOBIA: Fear of getting venereal disease
• CYPRIPAREUNIA: Sexual intercourse with a prostitute

D

• DACRYPHILIA: Arousal from seeing tears in the eyes of a partner
• DASYPYGAL: Having hairy buttocks
• DENDROPHILIA: Attraction to trees
• DEOSCULATE: To kiss affectionately
• DEPUSCELATE: To lose one’s virginity
• DIGENESIS: Alternately sexual and asexual reproduction
• DIGENOUS: Bisexual
• DIOESTRUM: The time when a female animal is not in heat
• DORAPHILIA: Love of animal skins
• DOWCET: A deer’s testicle
• DYSTYCHIPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from accidents

E

• ECDEMOLAGNIA: Arousal from traveling or being away from home
• ECDYSIAST: A stripper
• EDEA: The external genitals
• ELUMBATED: Weak in the loins
• EMETOPHILIA: Arousal from vomit or vomiting
• EMMENOLOGY: The study of menstruation
• ENCEINTE: Pregnant
• ENCRATY: Abstinence
• EONISM: Transvestitism
• EPHEBOPHILIA: Compelling need for an older person to seek adolescent partners for sexual gratification
• EPICENE: Pertaining to both sexes
• EPIGAMIC: Tending to attract the opposite sex during mating season
• EPISTEMOPHILIA: Abnormal preoccupation with acquiring knowledge (This best describes me)
• EREMOPHILIA: Maniacal desire to be left alone
• ERGOPHILIA: Love of work and labor
• EROTOPHOBIA: Fear of sexual love
• EROTOPHONPHILIA: Attaining sexual satisfaction from murdering complete strangers
• ERYTHROPHILIA: Becoming aroused by blushing
• EUNUCHATE: To make a eunuch
• EVIRATION: Emasculation, castration

F

• FAM: To grope a woman
• FEMORAL COITUS: Penis-thigh sex
• FESCENNINE: Vulgar
• FISSIPARISM: Reproduction by fissioning
• FORMICOPHILIA: Enjoyment of the use of insects for sexual purposes
• FRICATRICE: A whore
• FROTTEUR: A person aroused by brushing up against clothed people in public places
• FURTLING: The use of fingers underneath cut-outs in genital areas of photos for arousal

G

• GAMIC: Sexual
• GAMOPHOBIA: Fear of marriage
• GENICON: A sexual partner imagined by one who is dissatisfied with her actual partner
• GENOPHOBIA: Fear of sex
• GERONOSEXUALITY: An attraction where the object of desire is 30 years older or more
• GERONTOPHILIA: Arousal from an older partner
• GODEMICHE: A dildo
• GOMPHIPOTHIC: Arousal by the sight of teeth
• GRAPHOLAGNIA: Maniacal interest in obscene pictures
• GRIVOISERIE: Lewd and lascivious behavior
• GUNZEL: A passive, orally oriented, male homosexual
• GYMNOPHOBIA: Fear of nudity
• GYNANDER: A female pseudo-hermaphrodite
• GYNANDRY: Hermaphroditism
• GYNOPHOBIA: Fear of women
• GYNOTIKOLOBOMASSOPHILIA: Deriving sexual pleasure by nibbling on a woman’s earlobe

H

• HAMARTOPHILIA: Love of committing sinful acts
• HAPTEPHILIA: Arousal by being touched
• HARPAXOPHILIA: Getting pleasure by robbery or being robbed
• HEAUTONTIMORUMENOS: Masochist
• HEBETIC: Happening at puberty
• HEDONOPHOBIA: Fear of pleasure
• HEMATOLAGNIA: Sexual stimulation from blood
• HEMIPENIS: One of the paired sex organs of many reptiles
• HETAERISM: Extramarital sex; communal marriage
• HOMILOPHILIA: Arousal from hearing or giving sermons
• HYMENORRHEXIS: Defloration of the hymen
• HYPNOPHILIA: Turned on by the thought of sleeping

I

• ICOLAGNIA: Arousal from contemplation of, or contact with sculptures or pictures.
• INFANTILISM: Attraction to childhood items
• IPSISM: Masturbation
• IRRUMATION: Fellatio
• ISOPHILIC: Relating to same gender affection sans sex
• ITHYPHALLIC: Pertaining to the phallus carried in Bacchanalian festivals; lewd

J

• JOCKER: A male homosexual

K

• KAINOTOPHILIA: Getting pleasure from change
• KAKORRHAPHIOPHILIA: Arousal from failure
• KALOPSIA: Condition where things appear more beautiful than they really are (e.g. when you’re drunk)
• KENOPHILIA: Attraction to empty or open spaces
• KERAUNOPHILIA: Turned on by thunder and lightning
• KINESOPHILIA: Arousal from movement and exercise
• KLISMAPHILIA: Sexual pleasure from enemas
• KNISSOPHILIA: Attraction to incense-burning
• KOPOPHILIA: Arousal from physical or mental exhaustion

L

• LAGNOSIS: Satyriasis
• LALIOPHILIA: Arousal from public speaking
• LALOCHEZIA: Talking dirty to relieve tension
• LAPAROHYSTEROSALPINGOOOPHORECTOMY: Surgical removal of the female reproductive organs
• LEMAN: A mistress or lover
• LENOCINANT: Lewd
• LIGYROPHILIA: Turned on by loud noises
• LILAPSOPHILIA: Arousal from tornadoes
• LOBCOCK: A large, relaxed penis
• LITHOPHILIA: Attraction to stones, gravel, or mud
• LOVERTINE: Addicted to love-making
• LUPANARIAN: Lubricious, lascivious, lewd
• LYGOPHILIA: Love of darkness
• LYSSOPHILIA: Sexual arousal from becoming angry or upset

M

• MACHLAENOMANIA: Masochism in women
• MACROMASTIC: Pertaining to large breasts
• MACROPHILIA: Attraction to giants or giant creatures
• MAIESIOPHILIA: Arousal from childbirth or pregnant women
• MAMMILLATED: Having nipples
• MANIAPHILIA: Attraction to insane people
• MANUSTUPRATION: Masturbation
• MASTIGOPHILIA: Sexual gratification from punishment or being whipped; masochism
• MATUTOLAGNIA: Antemerdian sexual desire
• MAZOPHILIA: Compulsion for breasts
• MECHANOPHILIA: Turned on by machines
• MEGALOPHILIA: Arousal from large objects (not necessarily fat)
• MELISSOPHILIA: Attraction to bees
• MENACME: The menstruating part of a woman’s life
• MENOPHANIA: The onset of menstruation; false menstruation
• MENTULATE: Possessing a large penis; well-hung
• MERKIN: A pubic hair wig
• METOPOPHILIA: Turned on by a person’s face
• METROPHILIA: Arousal from poetry
• MISAPODYSIS: Hatred of undressing in front of someone
• MISEROTIA: Aversion to sex
• MIXOSCOPIA: Orgasm achieved by watching one’s beloved have sex with someone else; voyeurism
• MOLYSMOPHILIA: Attraction to dirt, filth, or contamination (see MYSOPHILIA)
• MONOECIOUS: Hermaphroditic
• MONORCHID: Having one testicle
• MULIEBRITY: Assumption of female characteristics by a male
• MULTIGRAVIDA: A woman who has been pregnant more than once
• MUSOPHILIA: Attraction to mice
• MYSOPHILIA: Love of dirt or becoming dirty

N

• NANOPHILIA: Sexual attraction to a short partner
• NARRATOPHILIA: Arousal from erotic conversations
• NASOPHILIA: Arousal from the sight, touch, licking, or sucking of a partner’s nose.
• NEANILAGNIA: A yen for nymphets
• NEBULOPHILIA: Arousal from fog
• NECROPHILIA: Sexual gratification only by having sex with the dead
• NEMOPHILIA: Love of forests
• NEOLAGNIUM: Puberty
• NEOPHILIA: Arousal from anything new
• NOSOPHILIA: Love of becoming ill
• NOTHOSONOMIA: Calling someone a bastard
• NOVERCAMANIA: Sexual attraction to one’s stepmother
• NYCTOPHILIA: Love of night
• NYMPHOLEPSY: Trance incurred by erotic daydreams

O

• OBSOLAGNIUM: Waning sexual desire due to age
• OCHLOPHILIA: Attraction to crowds
• OCNOPHILE: Someone chronically dependent on their lover
• OCULOLINCTUS: The act of licking a partner’s eyeball
• ODYNOPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from pain; masochism
• OIKOPHILIA: Attraction to one’s home
• OLFACTOPHILIA: Sexual gratification from smells
• OMBROPHILIA: Turned on by rain or being rained upon
• ONANISM: Masturbation
• OPHELIMITY: The ability to please sexually
• OPHIDIOPHILIA: Arousal from snakes
• ORNITHOPHILIA: Love of birds
• OSMOLAGNIA: Arousal caused by bodily odors, such as sweat or menses
• OSPHRESIOPHILIA: An inordinate love of smells
• OZOLAGNIA: Arousal from odors

P

• PANTOPHILIA: Arousal from just about everything imaginable
• PAPHIAN: Erotic; pertaining to illicit love
• PAPILLA: A nipple
• PARACOITA: A female sexual partner
• PARACOITUS: A male sexual partner
• PAREUNIA: Sexual intercourse
• PARTHENOLATRY: Virgin worship
• PARTHENOPHILIA: Attraction only to virgins
• PECCATOPHILIA: Arousal from sinning or having committed an imaginary crime
• PEDIOPHILIA: Attraction to dolls
• PEDOPHILIA: Attraction to younger partners
• PENIAPHILIA: Erotic fascination with poverty
• PENTHERAPHILIA: Sexual attraction to one’s mother-in-law
• PEODEIKTOPHILIA: Sexual arousal from exhibitionism
• PEOTOMY: Surgical amputation of the penis
• PESSARY: A vaginal suppository
• PHALLATION: Movement of the penis in sexual intercourse
• PHILOPHOBIA: Fear of falling in love or of being loved
• PHILOPORNIST: A lover of prostitutes
• PHRONEMOPHILIA: Turned on by the act of thinking
• PHTHIRIOPHILIA: Attraction to lice
• PHYGEPHILIA: Arousal from being a fugitive
• PICTOPHILIA: Arousal only from looking at erotic pictures
• PIZZLE: A whip made of an animal’s penis
• PLACOPHILIA: Arousal from tombstones
• PLANISTETHIC: Flat-chested
• PLUVIOPHILIA: Sexual stimulation from rain or being rained upon
• PNIGOPHILIA: Aroused from people choking
• POINEPHILIA: Turned on by punishment; masochism
• PONOPHILIA: Attraction to overwork
• PORNERASTIC: Licentious, lewd, and horny
• PORNOCRACY: A government by prostitutes
• PORNOLAGNIA: Desire for prostitutes
• POTAMOPHILIA: Arousal from streams and rivers
• PREMENACMIUM: Life before menstruation begins
• PRESBYTOREAN: An erotic poem
• PRIAPISM: Persistent and painful erection, usually the result of a disease
• PRONOVALENCE: Ability to have sexual intercourse in a prone position only
• PSELLISMOPHILIA: Becoming aroused by stuttering
• PTERIDOMANIA: An intense desire for ferns
• PTERONOPHILIA: Sexual gratification from being tickled by feathers
• PUCELAGE: Virginity
• PUNQUETTO: A prostitute
• PUTANISM: Prostitution
• PYGMALIIONISM: Falling in love with one’s creation (a la “My Fair Lady”)
• PYGOPHILIA: Aroused from buttocks
• PYROLAGNIA: Sexual stimulation from watching fires

Q

• QUADOSHKA: American Indian form of tantric sex
• QUEENING: Sitting on the side of a person’s face as a form of bondage
• QUIM: The vagina

R

• RAMMISH: Lustful and horny
• RANTALLION: One whose scrotum is longer than his penis
• RENIFLEUR: One who gets sexual pleasure from body smells
• RÉTIFISM: Foot and shoe fetishism, including using the shoe for masturbation
• RETROCOPULATION: Fornicating from behind (“Doggie position”)
• RHABDOPHILIA: Finding pleasure in being severely criticized
• RHYTIPHILIA: Arousal from facial wrinkles
• RUTTISH: Horny; in heat

S

• SACOFRICOSIS: The practice of cutting a hole in the bottom of a front pant pocket in order to masturbate in public with less risk of detection
• SAPPHISM: Lesbianism
• SCELEROPHILIA: Attraction to bad guys or unsavory characters
• SCOPTOPHILIA: Voyeurism
• SCOTOPHILIA: Turned on by darkness
• SDRUCCIOLA: Copulate
• SEPTOPHILIA: Sexual attraction to decaying matter
• SIDERODROMOPHILIA: Arousal from riding in trains
• SITOPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from eating
• SOCERAPHILIA: Excitement from one’s parents-in-law
• SOPHOPHILIA: Sexual gratification from learning
• SOROPHILIA: Attraction to one’s sister
• SPADONISM: Eunuchry
• SPECTROPHILIA: Arousal from looking at oneself in a mirror
• SPERMATOPHOBIA: Fear of semen
• SPINTRY: A male whore
• STASIVALENCE: Ability to have sexual intercourse only while standing
• STAUROPHILIA: Arousal from the cross or crucifix
• STHENOLAGNIA: Arousal from displaying strength or muscles
• STUPRATION: Rape
• STYGIOPHILIA: Deriving pleasure from thoughts of hell
• SUBAGITATION: Copulation
• SUCCUBUS: A female demon who seduces men in their sleep
• SUPINOVALENT: Able to fornicate only while lying on the back
• SYMPHOROPHILIA: Arousal by accidents or catastrophes
• SYNGENESOPHILIA: Sexual attraction to one’s relatives

T

• TAPHEPHILIA: Arousal from being buried alive
• TAPHOPHILIA: Love of funerals
• TELEOPHILIA: Affinity for religious ceremonies
• TENTIGINOUS: Lascivious
• TERATOPHILIA: Arousal from deformed or monstrous people
• THALASSOPHILIA: Love of the sea
• THASSOPHILIA: Attraction to sitting
• THREPTEROPHILIA: A fondness for female nurses
• THYGATRILAGNIA: A father’s sexual love for his daughter
• TIMOPHILIA: Arousal from gold or wealth
• TOCOPHILIA: Fondness for pregnancy and childbirth
• TONITROPHILIA: Love of thunder
• TOXIPHILIA: Attraction to poisons
• TOXOPHILIA: Love of archery
• TRAGALISM: Lust; lechery; obscenity
• TRANSFEMINATE: To change from woman to man
• TRAUMATOPHILIA: An unconscious desire to be injured
• TRIBADISM: Mutual genital-fondling between lesbians
• TRICHOPATHOPHILIA: Sexual attraction to hair
• TRIPSOLAGNIA: Arousal from having hair shampooed

U

• UNDINISM: The association of water with erotic thoughts
• URANISM: Homosexuality
• URANOPHILIA: Sexual arousal by heavenly thoughts
• UROLAGNIA: Sexual pleasure from urinating
• URTICATION: The use of nettles to create extra sensation
• UXORAVALENT: Only able to attain sex extramaritally (applied to men)
• UXOROVALENT: Able to score only with one’s wife

V

• VACCINOPHILIA: Turned on by becoming vaccinated
• VAMPIRISM: Consuming blood of a partner for arousal
• VICARPHILIA: Arousal from other people’s exciting experiences
• VINCILAGNIA: Arousal from bondage
• VIRAGINITY: Masculinity in a woman
• VIRGIN: You really need to ask?
• VIRIMIMISM: Adoption of masculinity
• VIRIPOTENT: Sexually mature
• VITRICOPHILIA: Sexual attraction to one’s stepfather

W

• WETHER: A castrated ram
• WHELP: To bear offspring
• WHIRLYGIGS: Testicles
• WITTOL: A husband who tolerates his wife’s infidelity

X

• XENODYNAMIC: Person who is only potent with strangers
• XENOPHILIA: An attraction to foreign customs, traditions, and foreigners
• XERONISUS: Inability to reach orgasm
• XYLOPHILIA: Turned on by wooden objects

Y

• YELD: Not old enough to procreate
• YLOPHILIA: Affinity for forests
• YONI WORSHIP: Worship of the female genitals

Z

• ZELOPHILIA: Sexual arousal from jealousy
• ZOOERASTIA: Sexual intercourse with an animal
• ZOOPHILIA: One who is strongly attracted to animals in a spiritual, sexual, or emotional sense
• ZWISCHENSTUFE: Arousal from a person of the same sex