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From French piquer + -ism.
piquerism (uncountable)
- Sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin.
1983 October 1, Ronald M. Holmes, The Sex Offender and the Criminal Justice System, Springfield: C. C. Thomas, →ISBN, →OL, page 150:Piquerism, then, is usually perpetrated on others within some close physical proximity.
2002, Wade C. Myers, Juvenile Sexual Homicide, London, San Diego: Academic Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 145:Often, the sexual mechanisms inherent in piquerism are ignored during the assessment of sexually sadistic crimes.
2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Mike Weston (Shawn Ashmore):This triggered his piquerism, the act of stabbing, slicing flesh for arousal.
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