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Revision as of 20:14, 24 February 2006 by 194.6.246.250 (talk)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)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. This 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.
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
External links
- http://www.psychdirect.com/forensic/Criminology/para/paraphilia.htm
- http://www.answers.com/topic/scatology