ETLE

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A form of erotic target location error — A hypothesized cause of many paraphilias in which a person's principal sexual preference (e.g. for women) becomes focused abnormally (e.g. through fetishism of non-sexual body parts, or through a desire for traits in oneself rather than a partner).

Scrabble 4

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nounETLE (plural ETLEs)

plural ETLEs

  1. abbreviationinitialismInitialism of erotic target location error

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