Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A paraphilia in which feces causes sexual arousal.

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  • noun a marked interest in excrement; especially the use of feces or filth for sexual excitement.

Etymologies

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From copro- + -philia.

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Examples

  • Anyway, the point is, coprophilia is a fetish quite distinct in its own right, no more intrinsically linked to homosexuality or heterosexuality than any similar fetish, and one which isn't even remotely ... to my taste, shall we say.

    Archive 2008-03-01 Hal Duncan 2008

  • Anyway, the point is, coprophilia is a fetish quite distinct in its own right, no more intrinsically linked to homosexuality or heterosexuality than any similar fetish, and one which isn't even remotely ... to my taste, shall we say.

    THE.... Sodomite Hal Duncan!! Hal Duncan 2008

  • Sadly, "coprophilia" is also found in Webster's dictionary, and I don't know about you, but I try to keep that word out of my daily standard English practices.

    Caricaturing Obama. Ann Althouse 2007

  • Some people won't get past the book's first chapter -- an exercise in what one reviewer termed "a detailed and thoughtful description of coprophilia."

    Daniel Ben-Horin: Timothy Mo Is Missing: Thoughts on SOPA, Creativity, and True Fans Daniel Ben-Horin 2012

  • Some people won't get past the book's first chapter -- an exercise in what one reviewer termed "a detailed and thoughtful description of coprophilia."

    Daniel Ben-Horin: Timothy Mo Is Missing: Thoughts on SOPA, Creativity, and True Fans Daniel Ben-Horin 2012

  • Bondage and sadistic/masochistic acts are rarely portrayed on the page outside of explicit erotica, though they can be referred to, and the same is even more true for coprophilia, necrophilia, zoophilia, and other paraphilias.

    MIND MELD: Taboo Topics in SF/F Literature 2009

  • The wingnuts' incessant use of oral-rape imagery to describe health insurance reform was creepy enough, but now it looks like they're going to start referencing their coprophilia fetish too.

    Archive 2010-04-01 Johnny Pez 2010

  • The wingnuts' incessant use of oral-rape imagery to describe health insurance reform was creepy enough, but now it looks like they're going to start referencing their coprophilia fetish too.

    The origin of feces Johnny Pez 2010

  • It helps that the guy has a wicked sense of humor and likes to talk about coprophilia.

    Happy Hour of the Damned Jes Battis 2008

  • While coprophilia is generally considered to be aberrant behavior, it's all right, I suppose, if you suffer from it.

    Brownback Supports Pace's "Homosexuality Is Immoral" Comment 2009

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  • "Not deterred by the harsh treatment of his work, Muehl went further in exposing 'the pornography of the businessman' and included anal sexuality, sadism, masochism and coprophilia.

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    Art becomes journalism! Muehl exposes by doing - do I expose coprophilia by eating shit? Do I expose someone else's coprophilia by eating shit myself?"

    - 'The Wet Dream Film Festival', Germaine Greer in Suck, 1971.

    April 2, 2008