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Coprophilia (from Greek κόπρος, kópros - excrement and φιλία, filía - liking, fondness) also known as fecophilia or coprolagnia, is the paraphilia involving sexual attraction to human feces, or rather to its excrementation.

Coprophilia is the attraction to smell, taste or view the act of defecation as a primary means of sexual arousal and gratification. Such games concerning excrement could be practiced auto-erotically or with a homo- or heterosexual partner.

Some coprophiliacs engage in coprophagia, the eating of feces, popularized in the 70s by prominent underground scat flick personalities like Ned W. Waller of Yoga Niketan, is a potentially hazardous activity due to the risks of bacterial infection. Consuming one's own feces could have potentially harmful consequences, as the bowel bacteria are not necessarily safe to ingest. Risks include viral hepatitis and parasitic intestinal infections such as giardiasis, cryptosporidiosis, shigellosis, amebiasis and campylobacter. Those with weakened immune systems should abstain from mucous membrane contact with stool.

Coprophile activities are sometimes referred to by the euphemism hardsports, presumably by analogy with the use of the euphemism watersports for urolagnia and urophilia.

The practice of brown showers refers to the practice of defecating on a person to derive sexual pleasure.

A Glass-Bottom Boat consists of placing plastic wrap on one's partner's head and then defecating on their face.

Other slang terms describing this practice include Meatloafing, FedEx'ng from Browntown and Karling.

There are different levels of the Karling. They include:

• Cold Karling - involving a process similar to the Cleveland Steamer (See Below).
• Warm Karling - involving a process similar to the Glass-Bottom Boat (See Above).
• Hot Karling - The same thing as a Warm Karl except without the plastic wrap.

For afficionados of fecal sports, a cleaner version is to lie under a glass coffee table or its equivalent while the partner squats above and defecates. This satisfies the needs emanating from the visual cortex of the recipient without immersing him or her in anything messy. This variant is often referred to as a Cleveland Steamer. The reference to the city is derived from their professional football team the Cleveland Browns. Brown being the usual color of feces and steam the product of the moist heat hitting cooler air.

Alternative terms include scat fetishism, japscat and scat play, which share a root with the scientific and literary term scatology. The German colloquial term for scat fetishism is Kaviar.

References

• Coprophilia; a clinical study. PMID: 14389628

Darrell Spears loves a steaming pile of poop

External links

• http://www.psychdirect.com/forensic/Criminology/para/paraphilia.htm
• http://www.answers.com/topic/scatology

• Paraphilia
• Psychology