piquerist

English

Etymology

From French piquer +‎ -ist.

Noun

piquerist (plural piquerists)

1. One with a sexual interest in penetrating another person's skin using sharp objects (e.g knives, nails, pins, razors, etc.).
   • 1990, Andrew Vachss, Blossom‎^[1], New York: Knopf, →ISBN, →OL:

     "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."

   • 2005 July 25, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia‎^[2], Pearson Education, →ISBN, →OL, page 242:

     Presumably 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.

   • 2013 January 21, “Pilot”, in The Following, season 1, episode 1, spoken by Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon):

     To classify him as a piquerist would be... too simplistic.

Hypernyms

• paraphile

Related terms

• piquerism