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From Candaul(es) (“a king of Lydia”) + -ism, from an account in The Histories of Herodotus in which King Candaules conceived a plot to show his naked and unaware wife to his servant Gyges.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
candaulism
can·daul·is·mToday it means: A paraphilia, sexual practice, or fantasy in which a man exposes his female partner, or images of her, to other people for their voyeuristic pleasure. Full definition →