scoptophilia(or scopophilia; adjective, scotophilic): a paraphilia of the solicitational/ allurative type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent on watching others engaging in sexual activity, including sexual intercourse [from Greek,
skopein, to view + -philia]. the condition in which a person is dependent on looking at sexual organs and watching their coital performance in order to obtain erotic arousal and facilitate and achieve orgasm. It is not surreptitious, as in voyeurism. The reciprocal paraphilic condition is sometimes also referred to as scoptophilia; or by its own name,
autagonistophilia.
Synonyms,
mixophilia;
mixoscopia;
scopophilia.
See also scoptolagnia;
troilism.
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