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phallophilia

phallophilia noun: a paraphilia involving the sexual attraction or arousal to penises.

Noun

phallophilia (uncountable)

  1. A paraphilia involving the sexual attraction or arousal to penises.
    • The cosmophobic equivalent of erotic phallophilia (male homosexuality) is erotic phallophobia, that is, the fear of homosexuality, specifically of passive homosexuality, which is closely related to androphobic shame in men.1972, Samy Mokhtar Abdel Malik, The Conquest of Cosmophobia, Roseneath Scientific Publications, →ISBN, page 314
    • Fetta did seem upset and appeared to have a case of phallophobia, commingled, I thought, with a splash of phallophilia because he seemed miffed about instances of exposed male genitalia in some of my publications.2011, Ed Sanders, Fug You, Hachette Books, →ISBN
    Antonyms:
    phallophobia

Antonyms of phallophilia

Origin of phallophilia

phallo- + -philia

Words formed from phallophilia

Questions about phallophilia

What does phallophilia mean?
Phallophilia means a paraphilia involving the sexual attraction or arousal to penises.
What part of speech is phallophilia?
Phallophilia is a noun.

Words near phallophilia in the dictionary

  1. phallometer
  2. phallometers
  3. phallometric
  4. phallometrically
  5. phallometry
  6. phallophilia
  7. phallophiliac
  8. phallophilic
  9. phallophobia
  10. phallophobic
  11. phallophori

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