piquerism

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noun

Sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).

OriginFrench piquer →
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Meanings

nounpiquerism (uncountable)
  1. uncountableSexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).

    This triggered his piquerism, the act of stabbing, slicing flesh for arousal.

    2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore)
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    Piquerism, then, is usually perpetrated on others within some close physical proximity.

    1983 October 1, Ronald M. Holmes, The Sex Offender and the Criminal Justice System, Springfield: C. C. Thomas, →ISBN, →OL, page 150

    Often, the sexual mechanisms inherent in piquerism are ignored during the assessment of sexually sadistic crimes.

    2002, Wade C. Myers, Juvenile Sexual Homicide, London, San Diego: Academic Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 145

Origin

  1. Frenchpiquer
  2. Englishpiquerism

From French piquer + -ism.

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APA

piquerism. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/piquerism

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Chicago

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