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scopophilia

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scopophilia /sco·po·phil·ia/ (sko″po-fil´e-ah) usually, voyeurism, but it is sometimes divided into active and passive forms, active s. being voyeurism and passive s. being exhibitionism.
sco·po·phil·i·a (skp-fl-)
n.
See voyeurism.

scopophilia
[skō′pəfil′ē·ə, skop′-]
Etymology: Gk, skopein, to look, philein, to love
1 sexual pleasure derived from looking at sexually stimulating scenes or at another person's genitals; voyeurism.
2 a morbid desire to be seen; exhibitionism. Also called scoptophilia. scopophiliac, scopophilic, scoptophiliac, scoptophilic, adj., n.

Scopophilia
A paraphilia in which sexuoerotism hinges on watching others engaging in sexual intercourse

scopophilia [sko″po-fil´e-ah]
usually, voyeurism, but the disorder is sometimes divided into active and passive forms, active scopophilia being voyeurism and passive scopophilia being exhibitionism.


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The interest in scopophilia that marks Greetings--its riffs on Blow Up, its fascination with the perspectival grassy knoll vantage point of the JFK assassination, the Zapruder film--becomes an obsession in Hi, Mom
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