Meanings
- rareuncountablelifestyleA fetish involving sexual attraction to high-heeled shoes.
altocalciphilia […]
[1954, J[acob] E[dward] Schmidt, Sex Dictionary, and Lexicon of Related Emotions, La Crescenta, Calif.: Hannah Publications, →OCLC, page 845 more examples
The executive liked to indulge in altocalciphilia and masochism by persuading women to dig their high heels into his chest.
2002 February, Rod L. Evans, “altocalciphilia”, in Sexicon: The Ultimate X-Rated Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: Citadel Press, →ISBN, page 11Then again, I’m most certainly not alone in my “shoey” fetish. Forget women, but men across the globe too have been suffering in their sweet-and-silent agony over their altocalciphilia, which is defined as an uncontrollable desire or sexual fetish for high heels—by far the most common sexual fetish around the globe.
2016 February 11, Mallika Nawal, “The Secret Spell Of The Stiletto”, in Swarajya, archived from the original on 12 Feb 2016The theme of this issue? Fetishes as realized by photographer Steven Klein, especially: altocalciphilia (the fetish of high heels), pictophilia (the fetish for erotic pictures), and autagonistophilia (the fetish for being on camera).
2017 October 3, Lilah Ramzi, “Killer Heels Dominated at Visionaire’s 67th Issue Launch Party”, in Vogue, archived from the original on 20 Dec 2024Among the Trump women, Marla Maples is the only one consistently photographed wearing flats—sneakers and espadrilles—a result of her inner tomboy, her post-divorce downsizing, and her former publicist’s [Chuck Jones’s] shoe fetish. The diagnostic name for Chuck Jones’s problem is altocalciphilia.
2018, Nina Burleigh, “#FreeMelania”, in The Trump Women: Part of the Deal, New York, N.Y.: Gallery Books, →ISBN, part 5 (Ivanka Trump, First Daughter)Altocalciphilia, the attraction to high-heeled shoes specifically, is probably the largest subset of Retifism. […] Richard von Krafft-Ebing hypothesized that most Retifists are also masochists, and this can be seen most acutely in Altocalciphilia, where the long and sharp heels are often used to inflict pain upon submissive men—most popularly in the genitals.
2019, Dennis DiClaudio, “Retifism”, in “Inanimate Objects”, in The Deviant’s Pocket Guide to the Outlandish Sexual Desires Barely Contained in Your Subconscious, Bellevue, Wash.: becker&mayer! books, →ISBN, page 101
Origin
From Latin altus (“high”) + -o- + Latin calx, calcis (“heel”) + -philia.
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