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autonepiophilia en · NOUN

From auto- + nepiophilia. Coined by New Zealand-American psychologist and sexologist John Money in 1986.

(formal, uncountable) Paraphilic infantilism with oneself in the role of the infant or toddler, wearing diapers, engaging in child-like activities and engaging with childish paraphernalia; a kink in which one imagines themselves as a baby or toddler, part of ABDL.
- Autonepiophilia is when the paraphilic individual behaves like a child, usually in wearing diapers as a necessary part of sexual activity. 2007, Fouad R. Kandeel, Male Sexual Dysfunction: Pathophysiology and Treatment, page 89:
- With one kind of chronophilia called autonepiophilia, sexual arousal and pleasure are dependent on, and responsive to, pretending to be a baby in diapers and having one's sexual partner play along. 2004, Nancy Butcher, The Strange Case of the Walking Corpse:
- Infantilism, also known as autonepiophilia (Money, 1986) is a paraphilia characteristic of a masquerade in which an individual is symbolically transformed back to infancy. 2006, Eric W. Hickey, Sex Crimes and Paraphilia, page 355:

fr autonépiophilie (Paraphilic infantilism)