scatophiliac

English

Etymology

From scato- +‎ -philiac.

Noun

scatophiliac (plural scatophiliacs)

1. (rare) One who exhibits scatophilia.

   Synonym: scatophile

   • 1973, Anthony Burgess, Obscenity and the Arts:

     Dean Swift, Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick's from Dublin, clergyman, was a great, shall we say, combined scatophobe and scatophiliac. He both hated and was fascinated by faeces.

   • 1985, Michael Tobias, After Eden: History, Ecology, and Conscience, page 236:

     Joseph Mallard Turner had a profound, if scatophiliac, attraction to fire at sea.

   • 2008, Stephen T. Holmes, Sex Crimes: Patterns and Behavior‎^[1], page 82:

     Like the exhibitionist, the scatophiliac wants his victim, the person on the other end of the phone line, to be shocked, disgusted, or horrified by his demeanor or words.