mixoscopy
English
Etymology
Borrowed from German Mixoscopie, from Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis, “intercourse”) + German -skopie (“-scopy”). Reportedly coined by Albert Moll (1862–1939).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /mɪkˈsɒskəpi/
Noun
mixoscopy (uncountable)
- (psychology) The attainment of sexual pleasure from watching other people have sex.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol 4, p. 299,
- Founded on the sense of vision also we find a phenomenon, bordering on the abnormal, which is by Moll termed mixoscopy. This means the sexual pleasure derived from the spectacle of other persons engaged in natural or perverse sexual actions.
- 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex, vol 4, p. 299,
References
- “mixoscopy” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
- Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd ed., 1989.
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