Coprophilia
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, texture 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. Except in the case of consuming feces, generally scat play is safe when played alone and safe with a partner if one uses protection so as not to come in direct contact with a partner's excrement.
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, though it is not as risky as eating a partner's feces. These 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.
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 (pages 235-236 in the 1987 Penguin edition of the novel).
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Glass Bottom Boat*
Human toilet*
Anal-oral contact*
Dirty Sanchez*
Space docking*
Cleveland steamer*
Urolagnia (also known as urophilia) - a paraphilia involving sexual pleasure through urine.
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Coprophilia; a clinical study. PMID: 14389628
