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Mysophilia - Symptom, Cause and Treatment

Mysophilia is a paraphilia relating to soiled or dirty material.

Mysophilia is obtaining sexual arousal and gratification by filth or a filthy surrounding. Put simply, this is getting horny from smelling, chewing or rubbing against dirty underwear.

Mysophilia (adjective, mysophilic) - a paraphilia of the fetishistic/talismanic type in which sexuoerotic arousal and facilitation or attainment of orgasm are responsive to, and contingent onself-degradation and self-defilement by smelling, chewing or otherwise utilizing sweaty or soiled clothing or articles of menstrual hygiene [from Greek, mysos, uncleanness + -philia]

There are a number of variants of this:

• Pornographic magazines have long contained advertisements for "used" women's underwear.
• Some gay men find other men's soiled underwear or dirty training shoes erotic.

Facts and Tips about Mysophilia

• The word Mysophilia comes from Greek word in which mysos means defilement and philia means fond.
  
• Mysophilia is a type of paraphilia and it is also related to coprophagia, coprophilia and fecophilia.
  
• Mysophilia is sexual reliance which mainly depended on dirty material like used undergarment, smelling or chewing.
  
• Option for soiled materials are pornographic journals which advertise used women's underwear, or dirty shoes, used menstrual pads and gay use men's dirty underwear.
  
• Person covered with dust, mud, vomit or feces also give sexual arousal by tasting, rubbing, pasting, or smelling it.
  
• Aversion therapy or cognitive behavioral therapy may helpful for treatment of mysophilia.

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