Teratophilia

Teratophilia

Teratophilia is a technical term for a sexual attraction to 'deformed' or 'monstrous' people. A teratophiliac is someone who is attracted to such people. Teratophilia is a category of paraphilia.

External links

* [http://www.fidnet.com/~robert3d/fun/terms.html Dictionary of Unusual Sexual Terms]

Further reading

*Koren G (1993) "Cocaine and the human fetus: the concept of teratophilia." "Neurotoxicol Teratol" 15: 301-304 ( [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=PubMed&list_uids=8277922&dopt=Abstract online abstract] )
*"En Brazos De La Mujer Fetiche" by Etxebarria, Lucia And Sonia N. Puente (Barcelona, Ediciones Destino 2002) includes a chapter on teratophilia


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