dacryphilia
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Etymology[edit]
From Ancient Greek δάκρυ (dákru, “tear”) and φίλος (phílos, “loving”) (or dacry- + -philia).
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Noun[edit]
dacryphilia (uncountable)
- A paraphilia in which one is aroused by tears or sobbing.
- 2008, The Library Association of Australia, Archives and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Archives Section - Volume 36, Issues 1-2:
- On registration, the user is prompted to complete a 'fetish list', most of which the average layman would need a BDSM dictionary for: acts such as Dacryphilia, Cupping or Klismaphilia.
- 2015, Richard Greenhill, Mark D. Griffiths, “Compassion, dominance/submission, and curled lips: A thematic analysis of dacryphilic experience”, in International Journal of Sexual Health, volume 27, number 3:
- Dacryphilia is a non-normative sexual interest that involves enjoyment or arousal from tears and crying, and to date has never been researched empirically.
- 2016, David Punter, The Gothic Condition: Terror, History and the Psyche, →ISBN:
- Perhaps dacryphilia, arousal by tears, is nearer to the mark -- certainly in Mandogi's Ghost this seems possible, not least because the text effects a seamless (unwounded) transition between the living Mandogi and (of course) his ghost.
- 2016, Richard Greenhill, Mark D. Griffiths, “Sexual interest as performance, intellect and pathology: A critical discursive case study of dacryphilia”, in Psychology & Sexuality, volume 0:
- The present study depicts the case of Angela M, a straight Romanian woman in her mid-twenties who has a sexual interest in dacryphilia (ie she derives sexual pleasure and arousal from crying and/or tears).
- 2012, Reginald Edmund, Blacula: Young, Black, and Undead:
- FRANKLIN: I don't know. Listen lady, I don't know what you're into-
VAN HELSING: Asphyxiaphilia, dacryphilia, sadism, masochism, androphilia, necrophilia, ass worship, and just overall full fledge kink, what about you?