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coulrophilia en · NOUN

Etymology

Coined after coulrophobia with -philia.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A paraphilia consisting of sexual attraction to clowns, jesters and mimes.
    • This volume of stories covers auto flagellation (self spanking), serviphilia (sexual servitude), agalmatophilia (mannequin sex), microphilia (attraction to small people), knismolagnia (sexual tickling), coulrophilia (clowns), gerontophilia, […] 2013, Nika Bella Dea, Bizarre Femdom Fetishes:
    • If you're charmed by incompetence, that's just another kind of coulrophilia. 2010, Monica Drake, Clown Girl: A Novel, page 239:
    • The blog recognizes its controversiality by informing about teratophilia, the ability to see beauty in the unusual and a sexual preference for individuals having unusual appearance, and its subgenre coulrophilia, sexual attraction to clowns 2018, Menina Wik, Romance Gone Mortal–Taboo of Shipping Fictional Movie Monsters:
    • The ascending of Jocund Jupiter may give you a case of coulrophilia, but this variety will draw clowns to YOU. 2020, Evan Nichols, The Ask Dr. Eldritch ETERNAL HOROSCOPE OF MYSTERY!, page 77: