Meanings
plural piquerists
- One with a sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g. knives, nails, pins, razors).
To classify him as a piquerist would be... too simplistic.
2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon)2 more examples
"The kind of person you want is a piquerist," he told me. […] "It's a pathological condition: it means the realization of sexual satisfaction from penetrating a victim by sniper activity. Or stab wounds, or even bites."
1990, Andrew Vachss, Blossom, New York: Knopf, →ISBN, →OLPresumably the piquerist does not initially engage in mutual carving but begins with small stabs or piercings and eventually intensifies his/her acts to encompass carving for sexual gratification.
2005 July 25, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, Pearson Education, →ISBN, →OL, page 242
Origin
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