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Revision as of 11:37, 20 May 2006 by Nintendude (talk | contribs)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)Coprophilia (from Greek κόπρος, kópros - excrement and φιλία, filía - liking, fondness) also known as fecophilia, fecalphilia or coprolagnia, is the paraphilia involving sexual pleasure through human feces, or rather to its excretion.
Coprophilia is the attraction to the smell, taste or sight of the act of defecation as a primary means of sexual arousal and gratification. Erotic fulfilment with excrement may be practiced alone or with a sexual partner. A common slang term for this is "scat sex", other less common ones may exist.
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 certainly abstain from mucous membrane contact with stool.
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.
In context of the so-called hanky code of the gay scene, the color for the handkerchief hanging out of the rear pocket is brown for scat. The use of the left pocket is generally seen as "active" whereas the right pocket stands for "passive."
A well-known literary work with larger coprophilia passages is 120 Days of Sodom by Marquis de Sade. Such acts also play a minor role in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow.
See also
- Glass Bottom Boat
- Rimjob
- Dirty Sanchez
- Cleveland steamer
- Urolagnia (also known as urophilia) - a paraphilia involving sexual pleasure through urine.
External links
- Coprophilia; a clinical study. PMID: 14389628