Brock Press

Issue date: 9/25/07 Section: Focus

· maiesiophilia: sexual attraction to childbirth or pregnant women
· mechaphilia: sexual attraction to inanimate objects, machines, robots, etc.
· mysophilia: sexual attraction to foul or decaying material
· necrophilia: sexual attraction to corpses
· necrozoophilia: sexual attraction to the corpses or killings of animals, or "necrobestiality"
· pedophilia: sexual attraction to pre-pubescents
· pictophilia: inability to become sexually aroused except through the use of pictorial pornography
· plushophilia: sexual attraction to stuffed toys
· scotophilia: sexual attraction to darkness
· sitophilia: sexual arousal from food
· telephone scatologia: being sexually aroused by making obscene telephone calls
· transformation fetish: sexual attraction to transformations
· urolagnia: sexual attraction to urine
· vorarephilia: sexual attraction to being eaten by or eating another person.
· voyeurism: sexual arousal through watching others having sex
· xenophilia: sexual attraction to foreigners (in science-fiction, can also mean sexual attraction to aliens)
· xylophilia: sexual attraction to wood
· zoophilia: sexual attraction to animals, or bestiality

- List of philias taken from
www.informedconsent.co.uk

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