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hypersexuality
Hypersexuality is a proposed medical condition said to cause unwanted or excessive sexual arousal, causing people to engage in or think about sexual activity to a point of distress or impairment. Whether it should be a clinical diagnosis used by mental healthcare professionals is controversial. The terms nymphomania and satyriasis have historically been used to describe this condition in women and men, respectively.
hybristophilia
thumb|Serial killer Ted Bundy was a subject of widespread hybristophilia, with many women writing him love letters and attending his trials. Hybristophilia is the phenomenon characterized by sexual interest in and attraction to those who commit crimes. The term hybristophilia was coined by John Money in 1986 and is derived from the Greek word (), meaning "to commit an outrage against someone" (ultimately derived from , "hubris"), and philo, meaning "having a strong affinity/preference for." In popular culture, this phenomenon is also known as the "Bonnie and Clyde syndrome."
ego-dystonic sexual orientation
psychiatric diagnosis
persistent genital arousal disorder
unwanted, unprompted, persistent arousal of the female genitalia, without desire
spermatorrhea
Spermatorrhea, or spermatorrhoea, is a condition of excessive, involuntary seminal discharge. In several cultures, spermatorrhea referred to ejaculation outside of certain approved sexual practices and was thus a subjective term. A more modern medical definition is the excessive release of semen with no accompanying erection or orgasm.
sexual arousal disorder
lack or absence of sexual desire
analloeroticism
Analloeroticism () is having no sexual interests in other people. Anil Aggrawal considers it distinct from asexuality and defines the latter as the lack of a sex drive. Analloerotics are unattracted to female or male partners, but not necessarily devoid of all sexual behaviour.
sexual masochism disorder
mental disorder involving sexual arousal from enduring pain, suffering, or humiliation