mixoscopy
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
From German Mixoscopie, from Ancient Greek μίξις ‘intercourse’ + German -skopie ‘-scopy’. Reportedly coined by Albert Moll (1862–1939).
[edit] Pronunciation
- IPA: /mɪkˈsɒskəpi/
[edit] Noun
mixoscopy (uncountable)
- (psychology) The attainment of sexual pleasure from watching other people have sex.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol 4, p. 299,
- Founded on the sense of vision also we find a phenomenon, bordering on the abnormal, which is by Moll termed mixoscopy. This means the sexual pleasure derived from the spectacle of other persons engaged in natural or perverse sexual actions.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol 4, p. 299,
[edit] References
- “mixoscopy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, v1.0.1, Lexico Publishing Group, 2006.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
