pygmalionism

(I here use "pygmalionism" as a general term for the sexual love of statues; it is sometimes restricted to cases in which a man requires of a prostitute that she shall assume the part of a statue which gradually comes to life, and finds sexual gratification in this performance alone; Eulenburg quotes examples, _Sexuale Neuropathie_, p. 107.)

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

Sarah Palin has been an exercise in pygmalionism gone wrong.

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D.G.D.: I don't know what shocks me more, Snuffles, that you know what pygmalionism is, or that you linked it.

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D.G.D.: I don't know what shocks me more, Snuffles, that you know what pygmalionism is, or that you linked it.

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Necrophily, or a sexual attraction for corpses, is sometimes regarded as related to pygmalionism.

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899

Greeks, conception of music ideal of beauty pygmalionism among

Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man Havelock Ellis 1899