lesbophilia

Noun

lesbophilia (uncountable)

1. A fetishistic fascination (typically in non-lesbians) with lesbians and erotic contact between women.
   • It is his lesbophilia that sets Proust's narrator apart from the author, that marks the novel as a novel rather than a perverse exercise in selective autobiography.1999, Elisabeth Ladenson, Proust's Lesbianism, Cornell University Press, published 1999, →ISBN, page 133
   • More broadly, we might ask to what extent French literature, with its twin associations of high culture and lesbophilia, came to be an oblique but acceptable signifier for lesbianism in the popular imagination of the twentieth century.2001, Gretchen Schultz, “Daughters of Bilitis: Literary Genealogy and Lesbian Authenticity”, in GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, volume 7, number 3