Meanings
- uncountableA sexual dependency on something soiled or filthy, usually a kind of undergarment after use.
These paraphilias include coprophilia (preoccupation with feces), urophilia (preoccupation with urine), mysophilia (preoccupation with unclean surroundings)…
2003, Richard W Roukema, MD, What Every Patient, Family, Friend, and Caregiver Needs to Know About Psychiatry, page 1332 more examples
While here filthiness is seemingly a consequence of the fear of being soiled, it is in our cases a consciously wished for situation which might be similar to mysophilia within the psychosexual infantility.
1963: National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis (U.S.), The Psychoanalytic Review, p272Mysophilia, for example, can probably only be an erotic turn-on when it is possible for people to be clean, which is something that has been possible only in comparatively recent times.
1988, Dennis M. Dailey, The Sexually Unusual: Guide to Understanding and Helping, page 17
Origin
Translations
Swedish mysofili
- mysofililove of nature and all living things
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