nymphomania
色情狂,色情狂热,色情狂魔,色情狂热症
Definitions
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Pathology.
- : abnormally excessive and uncontrollable sexual desire in women.
Examples
After all, she points out, in the 19th and early 20th centuries some doctors diagnosed nymphomania in women deemed to enjoy sex too much.
But now her frigid stoicism quickly devolves into a kind of nymphomania.
In men, hypersexuality was traditionally called satyriasis, while similar behavior in women was described as nymphomania.
Erotomania (satyriasis and nymphomania), or abnormal exaltation of the sexual appetite.
Such excesses in woman take on a more pathological character than in man, and go under the name of nymphomania.
A further degree of sexual hyperæsthesia is called Satyriasis in man, and nymphomania in woman.
It is well known that, while satyriasis is rare, nymphomania is comparatively common.
Wichmann states that pollutions are most common in spring (being perhaps the first to make that statement), and also nymphomania.