Definitions

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  • noun sexuality The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage)
  • noun The need to rub one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger.

Etymologies

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frotteur +‎ -ism

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Examples

  • Where sightseers once splashed about in silly algorithmic frotteurism, they will be treated this summer to an $85,000 community garden, whose “rural delights” will probably not go to supplement the nutritional needs of the disenfranchised but rather will go to make bloody marys and beer for architecture students.

    A Farm Grows in Queens 2008

  • And if he gets his way, then there would be another occasion for textual frotteurism and iconographical link-orgy: a sculptural band of friezes in which we see the wannabe urban planner in the guise of the Angel of Modernism — Meier Dux, the liberator of the Eternal City from its own ancientness.

    Sewer Zeppelins for the Era of Infrastructural Anarchy & Other Roman Tales 2009

  • And if he gets his way, then there would be another occasion for textual frotteurism and iconographical link-orgy: a sculptural band of friezes in which we see the wannabe urban planner in the guise of the Angel of Modernism — Meier Dux, the liberator of the Eternal City from its own ancientness.

    Archive 2009-07-01 2009

  • Where sightseers once splashed about in silly algorithmic frotteurism, they will be treated this summer to an $85,000 community garden, whose “rural delights” will probably not go to supplement the nutritional needs of the disenfranchised but rather will go to make bloody marys and beer for architecture students.

    Archive 2008-02-01 2008

  • My previous “gratuitous nudity” #4 post featured images of an Italian seventies film on frotteurism.

    Gratuitous nudity #5 « Jahsonic 2007

  • The Eroticist is a 1972 Italian film by Lucio Fulci about a government official who suffers from frotteurism.

    19 « November « 2007 « Jahsonic 2007

  • My previous “gratuitous nudity” #4 post featured images of an Italian seventies film on frotteurism.

    16 « December « 2007 « Jahsonic 2007

  • The Eroticist is a 1972 Italian film by Lucio Fulci about a government official who suffers from frotteurism.

    Gratuitous nudity #4 « Jahsonic 2007

  • There's nothing indecent about all of this fraternization and frotteurism; in fact, quite the opposite.

    Thestar.com - Home Page Alex Good 2011

  • Salem Police Lt. Mike Green says the charges stem from complaints from two classmates who reported being victims of groping and frotteurism.

    News for Richmond Times-Dispatch 2010

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  • The act of masturbation by rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. (Wiktionary)

    Gross!

    May 30, 2008