pygophilia

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English

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Etymology

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pygo- +‎ -philia

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˌpaɪɡəˈfiː.li.ə/
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Noun

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pygophilia (uncountable)

  1. A paraphilia involving sexual attraction to the buttocks.
    • 1975, Kenneth Tynan, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 194:
      Pygophilia may be, in Mr Melville's phrase, 'an infantile condition', but it is by several months less infantile than the curious obsession with breasts that plays so dominant a role in modern machismo.
    • 2010, Christi Smith Scofield, Ted Scofield, Sexy Slang's Bedroom Challenges: 69 Ways to Spice Up Your Sex Life, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 16:
      Pygophilia is sexual excitement caused by seeing, touching, or fondling a woman's derrière.
    • 2013, Jesse Bering, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us[1], Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:
      A hebephile (from “Hebe,” the Greek goddess of youth) prefers pubescents between the ages of roughly eleven and fourteen, and as for pygophilia, it's all about the buttocks.
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