Erotic
Pertaining to sensuality and love. Sexually stimulating. From the Greek Eros.
Alloeroticism: A psychoanalytic term for that phase pf psychosexual development in which an individual is capable of directing his or her libido and love away from self and toward another person.
Anerotic: The condition of not being erotic or responding to erotic stimuli; lacking in eroticism.
Autoeroticism: Erotosexual activity directed toward one's self and engaged in without a partner. The most common form of autoerotic activity is masturbation.
Erotica: A category of literature or other artistic works (plays, films, illustrations, sculptures) dealing with erotic themes, especially in a manner that stimulates sexual responses. The term may also include obscene and pornographic material.
Erotic aid: Artificial devices used to enhance or extend sexual excitement. Major items include dildos, vibrators, extention sheaths, shaped condoms, vaginal balls, penile splints, plastic vaginas, inflated dolls, pills, potions, and creams that are supposed to have an aphrodisiac effect. Also known as: sex aids, maritals aid.
Erotic apathy: A very limited interest in sex.
Erotic-arousal pattern: A combination of stimuli or a series of actions that produce a sexual reponse. Among humans, the pattern is not so fixed as in animals, and may iclude many types of erotic behavior; wearing provocative clothes and perfumes, romantic settings amd music, flirting, and especially all the components of foreplay.
Erotic art: Artistic produtions based on sexual themes. Erotic art originated during the dawn of history or before, and was usually associated with magic and religious rituals. Sexual symbols, such as the phallus, were frequently depicted or sculpted, but there was less emphasis on the pleasures of sex than on fertility. Sexual activities, including different types and positions of intercourse, began to be depicted in the later Greek and Roman period, but were supressed during the Middle Ages.
Erotic bondage: Restraint of various kinds applied for the purpose of inducing sexual excitement - for example, tying up the victim with ropes, straps, chains, thongs, or bridles, also, limiting movement by applying manacles, gags, heavy masks, and blindfolds. Individuals or couples who practise bondage as a form of stimulation are frequently passive or timid souls who derive a sense of power from controlling others, and living for the moment in a fantasy world of medieval torture and slavery.
Erotic character: The pattern of visible features that constitute sexual attractiveness, especially a person's figure, hair, voice quality, and skin texture.
Erotic dancing: Dancing as a sexual stimulant. Social dancing may be sexually exciting, especially if the bodies of the partners are in close contact.
Erotic films: Films designed to elicit sexual interest or sexual interest or sexual arousal. Films of this type range widely from romanticized eroticism without focusing on actual sexual relations, to explicit depiction of sexual acts of all kinds, including activities like flagellation, bondage, and sexual asphyxia.
Erotic folklore: Traditional tales, jokes, poetry, songs, and graffiti that have sexual themes or boast of or lampoon sexual behavior, particularly when considered deviant.
Erotic hanging: Hanging oneself, or being hanged by others, as a means of enhancing sexual excitement, often during masturbation.
Erotic image: A menatal picture, based on visual or narrative stimuli, that arouses sexual interest or desire.
Erotic instinct: A Freudian term for the libido or sex drive.
Eroticism: Craze for sexual intercourse. Morbid exaggeration of love. Also known as: eroticm.
Erotic odours: A term referring to the relation of odours to sexual activity.
Erotic paranoia: A mental disorder in which the most prominent feature is fixed erotic delusion. For example, a woman may believe she has had a secret affair with a man of great wealth or social status; and a man may insist that a great movie star is in love with him.
Erotic response level: The amount and kind of stimulation required to produce sexual arousal.
Erotic transference: The redirection of erotic feelings from one person to another, especially from an individual in one's past life to someone in the present.
Erotization: A psychoanalytic theort, the proces of axsociating sexual pleasure and gratification with various parts of the body and their functions, including the mouth (kissing, oral sex), the anus (defecation, anal intercourse), the nose, and the eye (voyeuristic pleasure in looking at nudity or sexual activity).
Erotosexual: Combining both the erotic sensual response and sexual or reproductive behavior with more emphasis on the erotic and sensual than on the copulatory.
Genital eroticism: Sexual arousal produced by stimulation of the genital.
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