Meanings
- uncountableA paraphilia involving sexual attraction to buttocks.
Pygophilia is sexual excitement caused by seeing, touching, or fondling a woman's derrière.
2010, Christi Smith Scofield, Ted Scofield, Sexy Slang's Bedroom Challenges: 69 Ways to Spice Up Your Sex Life, Sourcebooks, →ISBN, page 162 more examples
Pygophilia may be, in Mr Melville's phrase, 'an infantile condition', but it is by several months less infantile than the curious obsession with breasts that plays so dominant a role in modern machismo.
1975, Kenneth Tynan, The Sound of Two Hands Clapping, Jonathan Cape, →ISBN, page 194A hebephile (from “Hebe,” the Greek goddess of youth) prefers pubescents between the ages of roughly eleven and fourteen, and as for pygophilia, it's all about the buttocks.
2013, Jesse Bering, Perv: The Sexual Deviant in All of Us, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN
Origin
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