Paraphilia |
Focus of erotic interest |
Abasiophilia |
People with impaired mobility[3] |
Acrotomophilia |
People with amputations[4][5] |
Agalmatophilia |
Statues, mannequins and immobility[6] |
Algolagnia |
Pain, particularly involving an erogenous zone; differs from masochism as there is a biologically different interpretation of the sensation rather than a subjective interpretation[7] |
Andromimetophilia |
Trans men[3][8] |
Anililagnia |
Attraction by young men to older women[9] |
Anthropophagolagnia |
Sadistic paraphilia that involves raping and then cannibalizing one's victims.[10] |
Anthropophagy |
Deriving pleasure from ingesting human flesh[10] |
Apotemnophilia |
Being an amputee[4][11] |
Asphyxiophilia |
Being asphyxiated or strangled[4] |
Attraction to disability |
People with one or more physical disabilities.[12] |
Autagonistophilia |
Being on stage or on camera[13][14] |
Autassassinophilia |
Being in life-threatening situations[4] |
Autoandrophilia |
A biological female imagining herself as a male[15][16] |
Autoerotic asphyxiation |
Self-induced asphyxiation, sometimes to the point of near unconsciousness[14] |
Autogynephilia |
A biological man imagining himself as a female[17] |
Auto-haemofetishism |
Bleeding oneself (does not involve ingestion of blood). Type of autovampirism.[18] |
Autonepiophilia |
The image of one's self in the form of an infant.[13] |
Autopedophilia |
The image of one's self in the form of a child.[19] |
Autoplushophilia |
The image of one's self in the form of a plush or anthropomorphized animal.[19] |
Autovampirism |
The image of one's self in the form of a vampire.[20] Involves ingesting or seeing one's own blood.[18] |
Autozoophilia |
The image of one's self in the form of an animal or anthropomorphized animal.[19] |
Biastophilia |
Rape of an unconsenting person; see also consensual rape fantasy[4] |
Blood fetishism |
Drinking or looking at blood[21] |
Chremastistophilia |
Being robbed or held up[13] |
Chronophilia |
Partners of a widely differing chronological age[13] |
Coprophilia |
Feces; also known as scat, scatophilia or fecophilia[2][22] |
Dacryphilia |
Tears or crying[23] |
Diaper fetishism |
Diapers; considerable overlap with paraphilic infantilism[24] |
Dendrophilia |
Trees[4] |
Emetophilia |
Vomit[3] |
Erotic asphyxiation |
Asphyxia of oneself or others[25] |
Erotophonophilia |
Sexual arousal from murdering people, often complete strangers (also known as dacnolagnomania).[10] |
Exhibitionism |
Exposing one's genitals to unsuspecting and nonconsenting others[2] |
Feederism |
Erotic eating, feeding, and weight gain.[26] |
Foot fetishism |
Attraction to feet[27] |
Formicophilia |
Being crawled on by bugs[13][28] |
Forniphilia |
Turning a human being into a piece of furniture[29] |
Frotteurism |
Rubbing against a non-consenting person[2] |
Gerontophilia |
Elderly people[30] |
Gynandromorphophilia |
Transsexual or transgender women[3][31] |
Gynemimetophilia |
Transsexual or transgender women[3][31] |
Heterophilia |
Attraction to, fetishization, or sexualized idealization of heterosexuality and/or people who are "straight-acting," especially by non-heterosexual people.[32][33][34] |
Homeovestism |
Wearing clothing emblematic of one's own sex[35][36] |
Hybristophilia |
Criminals, particularly for cruel or outrageous crimes[13][37] |
Infantophilia |
Pedophilia with a focus on children five years old or younger, a recently suggested term that is not in general use[38] |
Kleptophilia |
Stealing; also known as kleptolagnia[3] |
Klismaphilia |
Enemas, either giving or having[3] |
Lactophilia |
Breast milk[39] |
Liquidophilia |
Immersing genitals in liquids[39] |
Macrophilia |
Fascination with or a sexual fantasy involving giants.[39] |
Maschalagnia |
Attraction to the armpits[40] |
Masochism |
Suffering; being beaten, bound or otherwise humiliated[2] |
Mechanophilia |
Cars or other machines; also "mechaphilia."[41][42][43] |
Melolagnia |
Arousal from music[44] |
Menophilia |
Menstruation[39] |
Metrophilia |
Arousal from poetry[44] |
Morphophilia |
Particular body shapes or sizes[14] |
Mucophilia |
Mucus[39] |
Mysophilia |
Dirtiness, soiled or decaying things[3] |
Narratophilia |
Obscene words[3] |
Nasophilia |
Noses[39] |
Navel fetishism |
Sexual attraction to navels - either their own or someone else's.[45] |
Necrophilia |
Corpses[2][3][46] |
Objectophilia |
pronounced emotional desire towards specific inanimate objects[2] |
Oculolinctus |
Licking the eyeballs[47] |
Oculophilia |
A fetish of being aroused by eyes and activities directly relating to and/or involving the eyes. Seeing _______(any item) and then being aroused sexually would not meet classification for this term. |
Olfactophilia |
Smells[3][13] |
Paraphilic infantilism |
Sexual arousal based on dressing or being treated like a baby, also known as autonepiophilia[13] or "adult baby syndrome";[48] considerable overlap with diaper fetishism[24] |
Partialism |
Specific, non-genital body parts[2][3] |
Pedophilia |
Prepubescent children, also spelled paedophilia; often confused with hebephilia, ephebophilia, and pederasty[2][49] |
Peodeiktophilia |
Exposing one's penis[4] |
Pedovestism |
Dressing like a child[50] |
Pictophilia |
Pornography or erotic art, particularly pictures[3][13] |
Piquerism |
Sexual gratification through penetration of another person, most commonly by stabbing or cutting the body with sharp objects[51] |
Plushophilia |
Sexual attraction to stuffed toy animals (Plushies).[52] |
Pygophilia |
Buttocks[53] |
Pyrophilia |
Fire[54] |
Raptophilia |
Committing rape, possibly consensual rape fantasy[13] |
Sadism |
Inflicting pain on others[2] |
Salirophilia |
Soiling or dirtying others[3] |
Sexual fetishism |
Nonliving objects[2] |
Somnophilia |
Sleeping or unconscious people[3][13] |
Sophophilia |
Sexual arousal from learning[55] |
Sthenolagnia |
Muscles and displays of strength[39] |
Stigmatophilia |
Body piercings and tattoos[4][39] |
Symphorophilia |
Witnessing or staging disasters such as car accidents[4] |
Telephone scatologia |
Obscene phone calls, particularly to strangers; also known as telephonicophilia[2][13] and scatophilia[56] |
Teratophilia |
Deformed or monstrous people[57] |
Toucherism |
Touching an unsuspecting, non-consenting person with the hand[58] |
Toxophilia |
Arousal from archery[44] |
Transvestic fetishism |
Wearing clothes associated with the opposite sex; also known as transvestism[2] |
Transvestophilia |
A transvestite sexual partner[13] |
Trichophilia |
Hair[39] |
Troilism |
Cuckoldism, watching one's partner have sex with someone else, possibly without the third party's knowledge; also known as triolism[14][59] |
Urolagnia |
Urination, particularly in public, on others, and/or being urinated on. Also referred to as "water sports"[2][3][13][14] |
Vampirism |
Attraction to or involving blood[60][61] |
Vorarephilia |
The idea of eating or being eaten by others; sometimes swallowed whole, in one piece[62] |
Voyeurism |
Watching others while naked or having sex, generally without their knowledge; also known as scopophilia or scoptophilia[2][14] |
Zoophilia |
Animals[2][3][13] |
Zoosadism |
Inflicting pain on or seeing animals in pain[63] |