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autoplushophilia

autoplushophilia noun: the sexual attraction to envisioning oneself as a plush toy.

Noun

autoplushophilia (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The sexual attraction to envisioning oneself as a plush toy.
    • Formal study will be necessary to clarify the nature, prevalence, and interrelations of plushophilia, fursuitism, and autoplushophilia among furverts and to document the nature and extent of any co-occurring paraphilias.2009 April, Anne A. Lawrence, “Erotic Target Location Errors: An Underappreciated Paraphilic Dimension”, in Journal of Sex Research, volume 46, numbers 2–3, Routledge; Society for the Scientific...
    • 'Gareth Craven. Likes to do things with dogs.' 'A zoophiliac.' 'They've got a name for it?' 'Everything's got a name. Necrophilia.' 'Dead people.' 'Autoplushophilia.' 'Auto-what?'2018 November, Mark Griffin, When Darkness Calls, Little, Brown Book Group, →ISBN, unnumbered page

Origin of autoplushophilia

From auto- (“reflexive, regarding or to oneself”) + plushophilia (“the sexual attraction to plush toys”), from plush (“a plush toy”, noun) + -o- (“a linking vowel inserted interconsonantally between two morphemes to ease pronunciation without contributing to the word's meaning”) + -philia (“abnormal love of something”). Coined in 2009 by the American psychologist, sexologist and physician Anne Lawrence.

Questions about autoplushophilia

What does autoplushophilia mean?
Autoplushophilia means the sexual attraction to envisioning oneself as a plush toy.
What part of speech is autoplushophilia?
Autoplushophilia is a noun.

Words near autoplushophilia in the dictionary

  1. autoploidizations
  2. autoploids
  3. autoploidy
  4. autoplunger
  5. autoplungers
  6. autoplushophilia
  7. autopneumatic
  8. autopod
  9. autopodal
  10. autopodia
  11. autopodial

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