mixoscopy

English

Etymology

Borrowed from German Mixoscopie, from Ancient Greek μίξις (míxis, “intercourse”) + German -skopie (“-scopy”). Reportedly coined by Albert Moll (1862–1939).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /mɪkˈsɒskəpi/

Noun

mixoscopy (uncountable)

  1. (psychology) The attainment of sexual pleasure from watching other people have sex.
    • 1927, Havelock Ellis, Studies in the Psychology of Sex‎[1], volume 4, page 299:
      Founded on the sense of vision also we find a phenomenon, bordering on the abnormal, which is by Moll termed mixoscopy. This means the sexual pleasure derived from the spectacle of other persons engaged in natural or perverse sexual actions.

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